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VOL. 19 NO. 3 MARCH 1994
FEATURES
A Dirty Little Corps - page 48
RENT-A-GURKHA ..... S.W. MacKenzie
Need a private army for high-risk ops? Check out these famous Nepalese
hill tribesmen now available for security assignments around
the world. 30
NVA THROUGH THE WIRE .Isaac Stoats
Untold story of how 17 Green Berets died after three companies of
North Vietnamese sappers infiltrated a Forward Operating Base in Da
Nang — the costliest ambush in SF history.32
SOF's TROPHY TREK ...Galen Geer
All comers were winners on our last South African safari — and Publisher
Robert K. Brown finally took out a wily cape buffalo .....36
POGUE WARRIOR .....Dale Andrade
To many Americans, SEAL team commander Richard Marcinko embodies
the SpecOps commando — but a closer look at his best-selling book
Rogue Warrior reveals an odd mix of fact and fantasy.38
ONE FLEW THROUGH
THE CUCKOO'S NET ....James L. Pate
Inept ATF firearms investigators chase after wrong man, giving ruthless
killer of CIA workers plenty of time to skip the country .45
A DIRTY LITTLE CORPS
FOR DIRTY LITTLE WARS .Col. David Hackworth
Low-intensity conflicts don't fire American public support or play to our
military strengths, yet the U.S. is increasingly called on to solve Third
World military problems. Solution: an elite unit of foreign volunteers
fighting for Old Glory. j . 48
Photo: DoD
Trophy Trek— Photo: courtesy
page 36 Galen Geer
4 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
COLUMNS
Rent-A-Gurkha- page 30 Photo: courtesy S.W. Mackenzie
GUNSITE'S SCOUT .308 .Peter G. Kokalis
SOF dissects a custom-made hunting classic packed with commonsense
qualities — the world's finest medium-game rifle. 54
MARINES K.O. KHMER PIRATES .Richard Harris
When Cambodian gunboats waylaid a U.S. merchant ship and
kidnapped its crew, the communists didn't bargain on America's fast,
aggressive reaction ... 58
EXECUTIONS OR MERCY KILLINGS? .James L. Pate
One of the fed's own investigators unequivocally states that the FBI
deserves blame for the Waco inferno; another claims facts on childrens'
deaths were "twisted" to suit predetermined conclusions. 62
LIBERTY OF THE BREATHING DEAD .SOF Staff
Wyoming's maverick attorney Gerry Spence — counsel to Randy Weaver
— doesn't care what you believe, so long as you think for yourself. SOF
reviews his new thought-provoking book.66
Bulletin Board.6
SOF's "Evil Empire" Edition
Slick Willie Watch.8
FLAK. 12
U.S. Kisses Up To Aidid
World SitRep. 16
I Was There.19
Wings Of Silver — The Hard Way
Combat Weaponcraft 22
Fire Control — Vietnam
Adventure
Quartermaster 24
Tomahawks & Titanium Firing Pins
Second
Amendment OP.29
Speak Now Or Hide Your Piece
Supply Locker •••••••••••■••••••■a 88
Classified.92
Advertisers Index 97
Parting Shot. 98
Washington's Rule Of Law
COVER
With Third World punch-ups and
American isolationism chronic —
and "peacekeeping" obsolete —
Uncle Sam might consider induct¬
ing some foreign volunteer
muscle. This grunt from the hypo¬
thetical American Foreign Legion
employs an Olympic Arms OA-93,
an AR-15 receiver in a pistol
configuration. Read why the AFL
would be good for America,
starting on page 48.
Photo: G.A. Cook Photography
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 5
BULLETIN BOARD
*
RUBY RIDGE DEBACLE
HAUNTS FBI
The bloody standoff between the
FBI and Randy Weaver et al has
resulted in one of the most wrench¬
ing internal investigations ever con¬
ducted by the Justice Department.
Deputy Attorney General Philip B.
Heymann characterized it as a top-
to-bottom review.
Investigators from
the Office of Profes¬
sional Responsibility,
internal ethics watch¬
dogs of the Justice De¬
partment, have warned
top managers, agents,
prosecutors and former
officials that they could
face civil or criminal
charges, including ob¬
struction of justice and vi¬
olations of civil rights law.
Current FBI Director
Louis J. Freeh would
not permit any bureau
officials to comment,
and declined to discuss
the case because of the
continuing investigation
and the fact that “com¬
plex legal issues should
not be prejudged.”
Some FBI officials
said they also fear an investigation
by an Idaho state prosecutor could
lead to homicide indictments against
federal agents.
In a related development, U.S.
District Judge Edward Lodge has
levied fines of $1,920 on the FBI for
its handling of the trial of Randy
Weaver and friend Kevin Harris.
Judge Lodge said the FBI repeat¬
edly ignored his orders to produce
documents on time, delaying the
eight-week trial and hampering the
defense. The FBI had earlier admit¬
ted it fabricated evidence in the
case. Harris was found innocent;
Weaver was acquitted of all but one
relatively minor charge.
During the attack on his moun¬
tain home, Weaver’s 14-year-old
son was killed by a shot in the back
from a U.S. marshal, and his wife
was killed by an FBI sniper as she
stood in the door of their home hold¬
ing their baby daughter.
CLARIFICATION
A clarification is in order concern¬
ing an article on the Church Univer¬
sal And Triumphant (see “ATF’s
Who woulda thunk it. Posing in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral in
Moscow’s Red Square are SOF Executive Editor Tom Slizewski
(right). Associate Publisher Lefty Wilson (left) and publisher of SOF 's
Russian-language edition, Sergei Panasenko (center). No, that's not a
misprint; starting in January 1994, SOF will be distributed (in Russian)
throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union.
Next Big Mistake?” SOF Dec. ’93).
Due to the placement of a subhead,
some readers may have inferred
that a church member, Dr. Barbara
Looby, is a member of the Cosmic
Honor Guard, a security team as¬
signed to church leader Elizabeth
Clare Prophet. That is not the case.
Dr. Looby is not a member of Proph¬
et’s Cosmic Honor Guard, and SOF
regrets any misunderstanding that
may have arisen.
LETHAL LATRINES
Contamination left behind by de¬
parting former Soviet troops in the
Czech Republic has proved to be
so extensive that cleanup crews are
even tiptoeing around the latrines.
Tons of unexploded ordnance were
left behind by departing Sovs in
1991, and the Czech defense min¬
ister says some of the worst prob¬
lems have been discovered in la¬
trines, where grenades, mortar
shells and thousands of rounds of
belted machine-gun ammo have
been discovered. The defense min¬
ister noted that “there are hundreds
of thousands of cubic meters” of
debris that must to be
sorted and disposed of.
“There was a tremen¬
dous lack of discipline
among Russian sol¬
diers,” he said.
MUGGERS HAVE A
UNION, OR WHAT?
Seventy-one-year-old
Jerome Sandusky had
less than $30 when he
was mugged and nearly
choked to death on a New
York subway station -by
Bernard McCummings
— fresh out of jail for a
previous robbery — and
an accomplice. Two
plain clothes transit po¬
lice stopped the robbery
and as McCummings
ran, one of the cops shot
him, severing his spinal
cord and paralyzing him
from the chest down. Awwwww.
McCummings sued the transit au¬
thority and was awarded $4.3 mil¬
lion. The U.S. Extreme Court has
let it stand — excessive force, don’t
you know.
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SLICK WILLIE WATCH
News (But Not A Surprise):
LIFESTYLES OF THE BITCH
AND FAMOUS
Homeless vets take note: Clinton
has hired himself a private chef from
Italy (at taxpayer expense). Chef
Bruno Bartoli gets a salary of
$10,000 a month, five days' vaca¬
tion a month in Italy (and free use
of U S. military aircraft for his vaca¬
tion tnps). He probably needs the
Gl aircraft, though, as he brings-in
food and wine from Italy for the
White House.
Jokti KENTUCKY FRIED'S
NEW HILLARY BASKET
2 large thighs
2 small breasts
27 left wings
Nows: PEACE MAKES
STRANGE BEDFELLOWS?
Guess who’s been removed from
the list of "special countries who
can’t receive material they could use
or transmit to a third country for
nuclear purposes: Malawi. Syria and
Yemen, among others.
Overheard: POLITICALLY
INCORRECT D.l.
“OK, you mens, stick out yo’
chests not yo’ butts. This ain’t Mr.
Clinton’s Army... Yet 1
Joke: CLINTON COUNTRY?
Stranger went into a barber shop,
started reading a paper. After a
while he put it aside and remarked.
'That Bill Clinton is a horse's ass!"
Man next to him knocked him
out Of his chair
Stranger read some more, then
remarked to himself. That Hillary
Clinton, she’s a horse's ass. too!"
Man on the other side of him
knocked him out of his chair again.
Whereupon the stranger re¬
marked to the barber. "I guess I'd
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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 11
FLAK
LOOKS UIC THE 'M AGAINST CRIME
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U.S. KISSES UP TO AIDID
How is this possible? On 3 Octo¬
ber 1993, 18 U.S. Army Rangers
were killed, one was captured and
more than 70 others were badly
wounded in a botched operation in
Mogadishu to “capture Somali war¬
lord Mohamed Aidid.” The country
was galvanized with outrage as forc¬
es loyal to Aidid dragged mutilated
corpses of American servicemen
through the streets.
I write this on 3 December 1993
after reading this item in the Contra
Costa Times newspaper:
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — So¬
mali clan leader Mohamed Farrah
Aidid arrived in Ethiopia aboard a
U.S. military plane for talks with his
rivals... The world is changing ev¬
ery minute,” Aidid replied when
asked why he decided to come to
Addis Ababa.
Oh, yeah! Well, it hasn’t changed
that much! And I know one thing,
those men didn’t die so that 60 days
later we could provide a free air taxi
to that murdering S.O.B. But I’ll re¬
member this in ’96. A plague on
Clinton and all who agree with him.
Jim Coyne
Danville, California
STILL CAN'T BELIEVE
COMMIES
I read Colonel Hackworth’s
thoughts on the Vietnam War with
great interest. A couple of points
are worth noting, however:
I • I am sick of listen¬
ing to retired NVA/VC
commanders telling us
they won because their
ii/Fl men believed their
I cause was just. Think
’— J about it. You’re a retired
communist officer, pre¬
sumably getting a check
from Uncle Ho’s suc-
\ cessors. They know
A where you live. Now
^ some rich American
- drifts in for a cup of cof-
I fee and says, “Nguyen,
give me the straight
skinny? What was it really like on
your side? And by the way I’m go¬
ing to print everything you say in
an American magazine.” What are
you going to say for the record?
Probably the same garbage they’ve
been telling you to say for 50 years.
By now you probably believe it
anyway.
• As one who was a stateside
civilian during the entire war, I would
hesitate to write off the hostility of
the various information media as
being of little account. I’m sure
Hackworth is making a valid point
in his assertion that media
scapegoating on the part of the
Army is unjust (and self-defeating)
but the fact remains that the media
were hostile. Whatever happened
on the battlefield, much of the Amer¬
ican press had an anti-war agenda
that was politically motivated. It was
real and it was powerful.
Rev. George E. Rittenhouse
Pasadena, California
HACK NOT ON THE MARK
Though Col. Hackworth makes
some good points in his December
1993 SOF article, I hope the read¬
ership doesn’t buy verbatim every¬
thing he had to say. Despite his
awards and impressive biography,
he is not the ultimate guru on na¬
tional defense, foreign policy or mil¬
itary strategy. To believe everything
he puts out you’d have to wonder
how our country ever won any con¬
flict from a squad action to a major
war in over 200 years.
His underlying theme is continu¬
ous bad leadership, and it would
seem the U.S. military never exist¬
ed before Hackworth or survived
after he left active duty. If he had
been in charge of U.S. forces in¬
stead of Westmoreland, the end re¬
sult would have been the same, as
the civilian leadership dictated strat¬
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have handled LBJ, McNamara, the
South Vietnamese politicians, safe
sanctuaries in North Vietnam, Laos
and Cambodia and the myriad
other entanglements that plagued
U.S. forces.
Robert F. Singer
Sgt. Maj. U.S. Marine Corps
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NOT JUST ABOUT MEDALS
A letter in the “FLAK” column of
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us deserving proper recognition for
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I would like to remind "Martin that
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who answered the call.
The major states that he’s never
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back on a fellow veteran.
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RANGERS STAND ON THEIR
OWN MERIT
I’m a former 82nd Airborne para¬
trooper and want to take issue with
Tony Icamen’s cheap cracks about
the Rangers and his slur on their
valor. Icamen says they’re not that
“elite” if they’re getting their asses
kicked by the Somalis. Yeah, well
maybe the Marines aren’t all that
“elite” if 240 of them get snuffed at
one time by a single lousy terrorist
in Beirut.
The Rangers in Somalia proba¬
bly gave a lot better than they got,
even though they didn’t have ade¬
quate backup (which isn’t their fault).
As far as Ranger units having to
“prove” themselves, their combat
record in North Africa, Sicily,
Salerno, Normandy, Korea, Viet¬
nam, Grenada and Panama speaks
for itself.
I’ve seen other letters written by
Icamen to other military periodicals
that were basically the same song
and dance as this one. He’s just
another Marine Corps loud-mouth
who makes a career out of bad-
mouthing the U.S. Army.
David Geosits
Whitehall, Pennsylvania
RANGERS ARE SPECOPS
In reference to R.B. Anderson’s
statement concerning the Rangers
and spec ops (“Gurus of Guerrilla
Warfare”SOFNov. ’93): Saying that
“Rangers are the finest convention¬
al light infantry in the world, but
they are not really a special opera¬
tions force” is grossly inaccurate.
As a former NCO with C Company
3/75th Rangers, I can tell you that
our yearly training cycle included
extensive training in special opera¬
tions. We trained for airfield seizure,
runway clearing, building and room
clearing, hostage rescue, as well
as recovery of sensitive munitions.
We worked with Delta, SF, Task
Force 160, Spectre, etc.
We secured Desert One, spear¬
headed Urgent Fury, seized Torillos-
Tecumen, and executed a fast rope
prisoner snatch of 25 Somalis with
the boys from Bragg (yeah, it wasn’t
perfect but we took out 300 of ’em).
Sure Delta, Seal Six and Red
Cell are at the top of the SF food
chain and SF A-Teams can train
the hell out of indigenous assets,
and SEAL teams have the ocean
covered, but as far as Rangers not
being specops, come on. We all
train together and go to the same
schools. Rangers lead the way!
Ron Polverari
Macon, Georgia
DOESN'T UNDERSTAND
NATHAN
Here we go again with another
politically correct attempt by anoth¬
er self-appointed guardian of decen¬
cy and righteousness. Thank you
Nathan Schecter!
How in the hell could a man read
"Facist Freak
Show” (SOF Oct.
’93), come up with
the illusions Mr.
Schecter did and
demand an apolo¬
gy (“FLAK” Dec.
’93)? I read SOF
because of its will¬
ingness to report
on subjects that
are deemed too
hot to handle by
the controlled
press. I don’t al¬
ways agree with
you, but the day
SOF stops reporting controversial
subject under the pressure of mi¬
nority interests I will be done with
the magazine.
“Shocked, sickened and ap¬
palled,” Mr. Schecter? Where are
your loyalties when you speak of
“your people?” Myself, I am an
American first and always.
Daniel Lee Caywood
Hoopa Indian Reservation
NAZI ARTICLE IMPORTANT
As “one of Mr. Schecter’s peo¬
ple,” I was in total disagreement with
his viewpoint on the article “Fascist
Freak Show.” I think it is important
to have articles like this appear in
the major print media so everyone
can see the types of people that
are out there. In no way was this a
complimentary article, but an at¬
tempt by Mr. Krott to show them for
what they are. It is important for
everyone to see that threats of this
type still exist. And lest we forget,
one of Hitler’s first acts was to dis¬
arm the people. Does this sound
familiar?
MAK
San Diego, California
FREEDOM FIGHTERS
BLUNDER ON
Just a note to respond to your
article (see “Merc Scam In The Mak¬
ing" SOF Dec.’93) regarding our or¬
ganization, Freedom Fighters.
It would seem that your aim was
quite a bit off the target. We have
conducted our operation with the
highest set of moral values possi¬
ble; nobody has been “scammed or
defrauded” as you implied. In most
instances we are unable to return
more than 30% of the telephone
inquiries because of the thousands
of calls received. In fact, our 60-
minute tape was filled every sever¬
al hours and had to be erased.
I can’t at this time give you the
definitive information you would like
to have. However, rest assured that
we have been and will continue to
indulge in fair play to all — that
includes gays too!
Our planned news conferences
and parades in Washington and
New York have been postponed
until early 1994 due to the continu¬
ing action in Serbia.
Ron Pettiford,
Managing Director,
Freedom Fighters
P.O. Box 3822
Captitol Hts., MD 20791
This letter came with the photo¬
copied print featured on this page.
Apparently the 'Freedom Fighters’ ”
idea of operating behind Serbian
lines requires each member of the
team to wear varying bits of camou¬
flage (so if captured they can all
pretend they don’t know each oth¬
er) and sport non-ammunition com¬
patible weapons. It also helps if you
look like you're 15 years old. 5?
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COLOMBIA
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Since drug lord Pablo Escobars
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ANC wins national control
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centralized government; white
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ANC says it might use force
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refuse reintegration with South
Africa, but Mandela holds
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Islamic terrorism
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accused of torture;
terrorists attack cir¬
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showing foreign
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wounding six ...
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Under shaky cease-fire, government
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MPLA (holding only 20% of Angola]
refuses to abandon offensive posi¬
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disarm without positive guarantee
MPLA will not attack. Both sides
agree to future national army with
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forces. Savimbi narrowly escapes
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government denies Unita leader was
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TURKEY
Government says it will intervene if Balkans warfare spreads
to Macedonia
Turkey will buy 32 Harpoon anti-ship missiles,
64 of the Mk 46 torpedo, 40 anti-sub rockets, thousands of
heavy-ordnance rounds and other equipment from U.S. for
$170 million to use on four leased Knox -class frigates ...
IRAQ
Shi'ite dissidents say Iraq using
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Iranians claims Iraqis still hold¬
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Foreign Minister Kozyrev says country reserves right to defend any of 20 million ethnic Russians
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Civil defense organization separated from military and now heavily recruiting women (18% of recent
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Russia will keep 1994 defense spending at 7 93 levels, but plans to boost weapons exports ...
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Police seize 300 assault rifles and 2 tons of
explosives from Polish freighter en route to
Protestant guerrillas in Northern Ireland ...
New Trident nuclear submarines will carry ,
96 warheads on 16 missiles (six warheads /
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New 155mm "Bison" gun being tested in Israel
as there is no room in Switzerland. Designed
for fortress-mounting, gun has maximum range
of 40km, fitted with flick-hammer that can fire
five-shell burst in auto-mode in only 25
seconds. Country plans to use Bisons (and
120mm mortars) to replace dose air support,
using Mirages and F-l 8s only for air defense ...
ITALY
Police confiscate eight
steam condensers en
route to Iran — these
could be used for
nuclear weapons pro¬
duction ...
MALAWI
Two soldiers killed by Paramilitary Young Pioneers (7,000 political
militia used by President Banda as thought police) who barricade
themselves in their Lilongwe camp; heavily armed troops sent by
ruling council to disarm them. Troops rampage, destroy camp in
two-hour battle, leaving 22 dead and 78 wounded. Army attacks
other camps, searching house-to-house for Pioneers. Banda
(dictator since 1964) dissolves ruling council, while army disarms
all Pioneers, seizing records of informants and dissidents ...
MOZAMBIQUE
Government agrees to form new
army employing 15,000 of its
own troops with 15,000 Renamo
rebels from U.N. demobilization
camps, but Renamo fighters slow
to enter camps and give up
weapons ...
First 540 officers and sergeants
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AFGHANISTAN
Massoud's planes bomb city of Sarobi, killing 50 civilians and 60 of Prime
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cease-fire, resume fighting next day ...
Hekmatyar's HQ hit by President Rabbani's air strike. Hekmatyar delegates his
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Guerrilla leader Salam vows to continue raids into Pakistan until that nation
returns his Stinger missiles and pays ransom for hostages ...
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U.N. approves deployment of
Russian troops to protect
Georgian ports and railroads.
Russian Spetsnoz and OMON
troops patrol in Zugdidi.
Government troops skirmish
with Abkhazian rebels, whose
leader Gamsakhurdia de¬
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for control of Georgia ...
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Major program under way
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missiles able to strike U.S.
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Russia ...
NORTH KOREA
Government officially admits
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vow country will face war rather
than submit to outside inspec¬
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capable of producing nuclear
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I WAS THERE
by Curtis C. Scott
Wings Of Silver — The Hard Way
The installation was Fort
Benning, Georgia, early in 1972.
My job there was to successfully
complete the Airborne Course—
jump school, in other words. This
challenge became a dominant
personal goal. All I had left to do
was make my fifth and final jump.
By so doing, I would win the
coveted silver wings of a U.S.
Army paratrooper.
As I arrived at the airfield on
the appointed day for my crucial
showing, the pulsating propeller
roar from all four engines on a
C-130 Hercules was not my
favorite sound. Seventy other
nervous souls joined me to slowly
walk up the aircraft’s vibrating
rear ramp. Moments later it
hoisted, sealing us all in the big
transport’s belly. A smell of stale
hydraulic fluid drifted through the
interior.
Sitting down, I noticed my
palms had started to sweat; no
surprise. We were all stoic and
silent now, as we faced each
other across hard bench seats.
Any sounds emanating through
the plane were mechanical in origin.
Our C-130 lumbered down the
runway, then rose gracefully into a
cloudless sky.
All too soon we approached our
huge, flat drop zone. Jumpmasters
now stood on either side of the
fuselage interior, screaming orders.
“Get ready!"
“Stand up!"
“Hook up!”
“Sound offforequipmentcheck!”
People were up and moving.
Jumpers attached their static lines
to overhead steel cables running
the length of the aircraft.
Jumpmasters scurried everywhere
trying to inspect each man’s
equipment. Jump doors opened
both sides of the plane, so wind
turbulence and noise intensified
noticeably. If you stood close
enough, you could look straight
down at the ground below.
No brush with death could ground this paratrooper
— the author in 1973 as a PFC, 8th Infantry
Division, Bad Kreuznach, Germany, before
commission as a second lieutenant.
Photo: courtesy author
Short minutes elapsed before the
next order came: “Standin the door!”
On either side, the lead jumper
appeared in his open doorway,
grabbing its sides tightly. The pair
stared into nothingness and waited.
They would hold these positions
until a red light above them blinked
off and an adjacent green light came
on. This would initiate the final
command.
When the green light popped on,
it instantly triggered the last order
— “Go! Go! Go!”
Men simultaneously spilled out
from both sides of the aircraft. Their
large, green half-sphere canopies
dotted the sky in single-file array.
As I shuffled toward the open door,
my rifle case wouldn’t seat correctly
under my arm; I was stumbling like
a drunk. Still trying to adjust it at
1,250 feet straight up, I waltzed out
into thin air to plummet at 135 mph.
My exit could best be
described as loose and
sloppy. Propellerturbulence
rocked me when clearing the
aircraft. There was a gentle
tug on my harness as
the parachute deployed.
Reaching up with both
hands, I spread my risers
wide to get a glimpse of the
canopy underside.
An ugly sight greeted me
— it was a malfunction, a
rather serious one. As
happens sometimes during
deployment, the shroud lines
N had crossed above and over
the main canopy, then
tangled. As a result, three
fl small nylon nipples fluttered
v overhead instead of one
large, acceptable canopy.
< The main canopy’s surface
area was thus greatly
“■—* reduced, increasing my rate
>per of descent. In all probability
I was dropping fast.
I snapped back into a tight
body position and pulled the
D-ring on my reserve
parachute as hard as I could. White
nylon sped past my face racing
skyward. I looked up a second time
to evaluate my efforts — more bad
news. The reserve had managed
to tangle with the main ’chute. Both
were now intertwined.
Violently I started shaking the
lines connecting me to the reserve
canopy; there was nothing else left
to do. It didn’t help. Out of the
corner of one eye, I spotted another
jumper. He was a good 600 feet
above me. Our difference in altitude
made me wonder where I was in
relation to the ground.
For the first time I took a serious
look down. It should have scared
me, but things were happening so
fast it didn’t. The ground was rushing
up to meet me with incredible speed.
Maybe two seconds were left. I
tried to relax — less bones would
break this way.
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Still, the expected impact was
ferocious. I slammed into the soft
dirt like a ton-and-a-half of dropped
steel. Everything stopped. My mind
seemed disconnected from my
body. I lay where I landed on my
back, dazed and still. It surprised
me to be conscious. Actually, it
surprised me to be alive.
Carefully, I tried moving each
arm and leg. It was quite a shock to
discover they functioned, as did my
hands and feet. I was positive
something must have broken on
landing, but glad to be wrong.
A jeep moving rapidly across the
drop zone headed straight toward
me. A young corpsman drove while
his passenger, a captain, stood
yelling, His words sounded faint
at first.
“Don’t move! Don’t try to get up!
We’re coming, we’re coming!”
By the time they arrived, I was
more or less standing. It was
important to me to know whether or
not I could still walk. Finding that I
could, I concluded my injuries, if
any, weren’t major. It was a relief.
The captain and I examined my
parachute, now a twisted heap of
nylon. He said my main and reserve
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COMBAT WEAPONCRAFT
by Col. David Hackworth
Fire Control — Vietnam
The following monograph is
extracted from the Vietnam Primer,
co-authored at the height of the war
bythen-Lt. Col. David H. Hackworth.
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learned, "the information in this book
may be too esoteric for many
readers. If you’d like to see further
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Weaponcraft, ” drop a postcard to
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693, Boulder, CO 80306.
According to the data basis, the
U.S. infantry line in Vietnam required
no stimulation whatever to its
employment of organic weapons
when engaged. The fire rate among
patrols in heavy, if brief, contact
was not infrequently 100%. Within
the rifle company, during
engagement prolonged for several
hours, the rate would run 80% or
more and the only nonfirers were
the rearward administrative element
or the more critical cases among
the early wounded. It was not
unusual for one man to engage with
three or more weapons during the
course of a two-hour fight.
Except during the first five
minutes of unexpected engagement,
which almost impels an automatic
rate, fire control was generally good.
The men themselves, even in
unseasoned units, quickly raised
the cry: “Hold your ammo! Fire
semiautomatic!” No U.S. infantry
unit, operating in independence,
was forced to withdraw or extract,
or made to suffer a critical tactical
embarrassment, as a result of
ammunition shortage. Gunners on
the M60 went lighter than in other
wars; the average carry was 1,000
rounds, with 1,200 being the outside
limit. But in no single instance did
the machine guns cease fire during
afight because the position had run
out of machine-gun ammunition.
When suddenly confronted by
small numbers of the enemy, the
Americans firing their Ml 6s would,
in the overwhelming majority of
cases, miss a target fully in view
and not yet turning. Whether the
firing was done by a moving point
or by a rifleman sitting steady in an
ambush, the results were about
the same—five total misses out of
six tries — and the data basis
includes several hundred such
incidents.
This inaccuracy prevailed
although the usual such contact
was at 15 meters or less, and some
of the firing was at less than 10
feet. An outright kill was most
unusual. Most of the waste came
from unaimed fire, done hurriedly.
The fault much of the time was that
out of excitement the firer pointed
high, rather than thatthe M16 bullet
lacked knockdown power — a
criticism of it often heard from
combat-experienced NCOs. The
Pfc. George Barber USMC opens up
on VC in thick bushes during
Operation Meade River, southeast of
Da Nang. After-action studies in
Vietnam War showed everyone with
weapons used them: During lengthy
engagements many troops would use
three different weapons. Photo: DoD
VC winged but only wounded by an
Ml 6 bullet, then diving into the bush,
made a getaway three times out of
four, leaving only his pack and a
blood trail.
As to effectiveness over distance,
the early data basis deriving from
six major and approximately 50
minor operations contained notone
incident of VC or NVA being killed
by aimed fire from one or more
Ml6s at ranges in excess of 60
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meters. Then, out of Operation
Cedar Falls in January 1967, there
developed six examples of such
killings at ranges upwards of 200
meters. The difference can be
explained by the nature of the
terrain: Most of the kills during this
operation were made in the open
rice paddy.
The Ml 6 proved itself an ideal
weapon for jungle warfare. Its high
rate of fire, light weight, and easy-
to-pack ammunition made it
popular with its carrier. But it could
not take the abuse or receive the
neglect its older brother, the Ml,
could sustain. It must be cleaned
and checked out whenever the
opportunity affords. Commanders
needed to assign top billing to the
maintenance of the weapon to
prevent inordinate battlefield
stoppages. The new field cleaning-
kit assisted that task.
The fragmentation hand
grenade, a workhorse in the
infantryman’s arsenal of weapons
in Korea, was of limited value in
jungle fighting. The record shows
that all infantry fights in the jungle
are characterized by close infighting
at ranges from 12 to 20 meters and
that the fragmentation grenade
could not be accurately delivered
because of the dense, thickly
intertwined and knotted jungle
undergrowth that blocked its
unrestricted flight. In numerous
cases, it was reported that the
grenade striking a vine and being
deflected would then rebound on its
thrower, causing friendly casualties.
The soldier entered battle with
an average of four hand grenades
strapped to his already overloaded
equipment. He was taught in
training that the grenade is the
weapon for close infighting: He
learned empirically about the
difficulty attendant on using a
grenade in the bush. Many times
the record shows that he had to
learn this lesson the hard way.
The data basis shows that fewer
than 10% — 6% percent being the
usage factor of World War II — of
the grenades carried into battle
are ever used. The configuration
of the grenade itself makes it
cumbersome and therefore
dangerous, as it is carried on the
outside of the soldier’s equipment
and is susceptible to any vine and
snag that tugs at the safety pin.
Out of this research, then, it may
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could be lightened by two hand
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techniques for the employment of
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Procedures must be developed
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Second Amendment OP
by Jeff Nelson
Speak Now Or Forever
Hide Your Piece
The legislative bodies of these
50 United States have begun their
1994 sessions. Some will be for the
entire year, full time, emulating the
U.S. Congress. Some will be short
— 60-day budget sessions. Others
will be in between. All will affect our
lives and our freedoms long after
the sessions are over.
For those of us committed to
stopping the erosion of our Second
Amendment rights, now is the time
to get to work.
The observation portion of this
phase of our campaign should have
begun in the fall, when this sitting
group of legislators was elected, by
examining their platforms and
campaign comments. And the
comments and actions
of incumbents during
the last session of the
legislature should be
compared to their
reelection statements.
Many a legislator
says (and thinks) that
he or she is on the side
of the gun owner or
hunter, yet is willing to
register handguns or
handgun owners, and
restrict or ban the
undefinable “assault
weapon.” Even though
we may feel their heart
is in the right place, this
shows a need for
education. Sometimes this is simple,
sometimes it necessitates what
could be called “getting afew things
straight.”
When dealing with legislators it’s
generally good to apply Clausewitz’s
fourth principle of war: unity of effort.
It is also the time to remember to
speak to a person in a language
that they understand.
Unity of effort helps to insure
that the legislature or legislators
understand exactly where the pro¬
gun forces stand. We do not enjoy
the luxury that electees have of
making campaign promises and
then forgetting them. Anything that
we say will be remembered and
read back to us. To avoid this
requires organization: organi¬
zation around a state rifle and
pistol association, a coalition of
gun clubs, or a separate group
formed for the purpose of
influencing legislation.
In any case, the group must
insure that discussions within the
group to reach a consensus are
conducted in private. Solutions to
any internal problems are bestfound
behind closed doors. The antis know
well the art of divide-and-conquer.
The best way for a group to show
a united effort and present a united
front is to designate a “press
person.” This will be a person who
is knowledgeable in all aspects of
the group’s goals, who can
represent the group in public
discussions, bind the group to
courses of action (within the group’s
goals) and be able to defend these
actions to the group. This person
should be mature enough to have
credibility with the press, the public,
and the elected officials. His title
should be impressive: “Chair,”
“Executive VP,” or something along
this line. The public must come to
know that what this person says
will, in fact, be the position that your
group will defend.
This spokesperson must be the
group’s leader and should hold a
position of influence in the
community: This will be the person
the media regard as the “go to” guy
when there is a public controversy
involving the gun issue. This person
should be articulate and personable.
This activity is of utmost im portance,
and group positions cannot afford
to be “second guessed” in the media
by others of the group.
Vo Nguyen Giap and Ho Chi
Minh showed us that wars are won
with public opinion, as well as on
the battlefield. Even more are
political battles won with public
opinion, as well as within the halls
of the state
legislatures.
Once the pos¬
ition of the group
has been defined,
public comment
must be couched in
the terms one would
use speaking to a
group of juveniles
who have never
read, much less
studied, the U.S.
Constitution, The
Federalist Papers,
the local state
constitution, or any
FBI crime reports.
No, I’m not referring
to the uninformed public here, I
speak of the members of the press
and our elected representatives.
A wise man once quipped that
the public should not view the
making of laws or sausages. Once
you watch laws being passed, you
too will subscribe to this — but if
we get organized and get involved,
we can at least help decide if it will
be meat or offal that gets stuffed in
the sausage we will have to
swallow.
Jeff Nelson is a Special Forces
vet and gun-rights activist.x
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 29
^frocks *
| to Porfe^ i^ r
Tried, and as true as it gets, Gurkhas
RIF’ed from Her Majesty’s service now
find work in the field of security, where
attributes such as courage, skill and
loyalty still count.
Tired of those pimply¬
faced, pubescent punks terrorizing
your neighborhood? Afraid that “law
and order” have gone the way of the
dodo? Take heart, or rather take mea¬
sures. In six short weeks you could
have a battalion of Gurkhas, kukris
included, on the ground kicking ass.
(A kukri, for new SOF readers, is the
“curved knife or short sword with a
Crown's Finest
Fighters For hire
by S.W. MacKenzie
Photos courtesy author
broad blade,” used with such exquisite skill by the Gurkhas.)
Interested? Contact GSG Ltd., a privately owned British company with its
head office in St. Helier, Jersey, the Channel Islands, and branch offices in
Kathmandu, Durban and Nairobi. Formed in 1990, GSG is co-owned by
Anthony Husher, a former officer in the British Green Jackets and Rhodesian
African Rifles; Jon Titley, an ex-British army Gurkha officer with additional
service in the Oman; and Mike Borlace, who flew (and crashed) fighters for
the Royal Navy and helicopters for the Rhodesian Air Force, then spent time
as a “brown-job” captain in the Rhodesian Selous Scouts.
All three found themselves doing contract security work following their
official military careers, and decided to team up and form their own company.
GSG’s two aims of providing cost-effective and competent security services,
and explosive ordnance disposal, are achieved by utilizing the expertise of
some of the thousands of veteran Gurkhas now out of work due to British
army down-sizing.
GSG employees are mostly Gurkha retirees in their early 40s. With coop¬
eration from the British Brigade of Gurkhas, GSG is able to identify Gurkhas
with particular skills, such as foreign language ability, instructor experience,
or engineer/demolition training for mine-lifting jobs. The company’s first big
job was to provide a security force in Mozambique for a huge British con¬
glomerate called Lonrho, one of a few foreign enterprises operating in that
war-torn country. Before the current cease-fire went into effect, the “security
situation” in Mozambique discouraged most foreign investment because rebel
Renamo guerrillas regularly ambushed convoys, attacked private and govern¬
ment targets, and terrorized civilian workers at will.
Hire The Best
In an attempt to protect their profits, Lonrho executives hired several
foreign security companies, none of which had much success until GSG’s
Gurkhas changed the picture. Thereafter, Lonrho farms and factories became
some of the safest places in the country. Concurrently guarding installations
and training local protection units, the Gurkhas provided Lonrho with a full
measure of service for their salaries.
Working conditions in a war zone are often hazardous, however, and the
Gurkhas definitely earned their pay ($60 per day in Mozambique, plus all
expenses). Although none have been killed by enemy action in Mozambique,
a few have been wounded in firefights. One of them was Warrant Officer
Tulse Thapa who was detailed to help secure a Lonrho farm’s water supply.
Setting off for the water source in a Land-Rover, with an anglo farm manager
driving, Thapa rode in front with three militiamen in the back. All of them,
the driver included, were armed with AK-47s, and Thapa also carried a
Makarov pistol and a couple of frag grenades.
30 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
Twenty minutes away from base, they were bouncing
along a narrow dirt road edged on both sides by 10-foot-
high elephant grass. Suddenly a burst of AK fire hit the
Land-Rover as a Renamo rifleman opened up from the
elephant grass. Tulse returned fire as more shots from other
ambushers struck the vehicle. His Gurkha slouch hat was
shot off his head and fell between him and the driver.
Blood from a head wound began to stream into one eye,
and he tried closing it to aim better with the other eye. That
didn't work, and he found he could see best if he kept both
eyes open.
Wiping the blood from his face, he changed magazines
and continued firing into the grass at the still unseen guer¬
rillas. As the driver tried to accelerate out of the killing
ground, Thapa used up most of his third magazine before
he realized the enemy firing had stopped. Finally clear of
the ambush, they stopped the vehicle to take stock of dam¬
age and bandage wounds.
Thapa was certainly lucky that day; although he had a
serious wound to his thigh, his hat had four bullet holes in
the crown and another through the brim. His head wound,
although bloody, was relatively minor. One of the militia¬
men was also badly hit, with a shattered thigh, so they
spent some time on first aid and radioed for help.
As mentioned, GSG was established by former officers
with a good deal of rifle time. Knowing the importance of
medical care, GSG contracts always incorporate the best avail¬
able casevac and treatment for their personnel In Thapa’s
Most farms don’t have mortar pits and Gurkhas, but this farm
is in Mozambique, where renegade Renamo forces make
agribusiness — indeed any business — hazardous.
Doorshakers need not apply.
En route to farm’s water works, GSG
operative Tulse Thapa (center holding
radio) took four AK rounds through his
hat and a couple elsewhere, and still
repulsed attack.
case, by the time the ambushed group
drove to the nearest airstrip, a medical
team and aircraft were already waiting.
Immediately flown to a hospital in the
city of Nampula, Thapa was found to have
shrapnel in his head and a AK round
lodged in his left leg, resting against his
femur. Since his wounds exceeded the
capabilities of local doctors and equipment, he was flown to
another hospital, this one in Mozambique’s capital city, Maputo,
and then to an even better facility in Zimbabwe. After five
days there, he flew back to Mozambique to recuperate before
resuming his duties.
GSG pays a lot of attention to casevac procedures. Fixed-
wing aircraft are always on standby during the course of
their contracts. In their current mine-clearing operations in
Mozambique,
each five-man
team has two ve¬
hicles, one sole¬
ly dedicated to
medical emer¬
gencies. In addi¬
tion, at least one
member of each
team has exten¬
sive first-aid
training. As soon
as a casualty
is reported, the
standby aircraft
is alerted, and
the casualty is
usually en route
to a hospital within hours. Recently, the company’s casevac
expertise was used to evacuate an employee with a critical
case of malaria, from the Mozambican bush to a hospital in
England in 36 hours, undoubtedly saving his life.
Aware that loyalty is a quality essential for the success
of the type of business that GSG conducts, the company
helps to develop it by providing benefits such as health care
for their Gurkhas and their families and by assisting with
the education of their children. Further, a percentage of
corporate profits are put into two trust funds in Nepal,
which pay for a variety of aid projects in that country. For
example, those funds have recently made several donations
to assist disaster relief operations being conducted in Nepal
in the aftermath of severe floods. In addition, being former
military officers themselves, Borlace, Husher and Titley
know the importance of being in the field with their men,
and thus spend a great deal of time away from home.
Gurkha mine-clearing teams, hired by Lonrho and paid
largely with money donated by the EEC, have cleared over
400 kilometers of road in Mozambique since they started
work in January 1993. They work six hours a day, six days
a week, and are taken out of country every six months for
Continued on page 81
Finding the needle in the hayfield:
GSG’s Gurkhas have cleared some 400
kilometers of overgrown Mozambican
roads of mines, mostly combloc (inset).
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 31
As the first flare ig¬
nited over the camp,
Sergeant Pat Watkins
made out an NVA sol¬
dier standing in the
door of the BOQ. “He
was wearing a breech-
cloth and bandana,” re¬
calls Watkins, and was
holding an AK-47. The
NVA didn’t see Watkins, who crawled
backwards down the hall.
Passing one room, Watkins saw a
young officer dead in his bed, impaled
by a jagged piece of two-by-four that
a satchel charge blew through his chest,
literally nailing him to the bed.
Crawling outside, Watkins saw
NVA at the TOC (Tactical Operations
Center) pouring heavy gunfire onto
the Special Forces troops trying to
awake and counterattack. As he headed
toward another BOQ, an NVA sapper
spotted him and “for some reason ...
he threw a satchel charge at me in¬
stead of shooting me with his AK.”
Watkins rolled out of harm’s way
as the sand absorbed much of the blast.
When the NVA saw Watkins still
alive, “he threw a grenade at me; again.
I was amazed that he simply didn’t
shoot me. He must have been high on
drugs or something, that’s the only
thing which explains it.”
Several survivors of the attack felt
many of the NVA soldiers were
drugged to enhance their fearlessness.
OJT Pistol Practice
After the grenade exploded,
Watkins pulled his .45. “Hell, I had
never hit anything with a pistol be¬
fore. I remember the instructors tell¬
ing us to shoot low, so I aimed, fired
several rounds and finally lucked out
32 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
and hit him. Talk about miracle hits!”
Still another NVA threw a grenade
at Watkins. This time, Watkins was
so close to the sapper that he rushed
the NVA, knocking him down and tak¬
ing his AK-47 before sending him to
the big rice paddy in the sky.
“After awhile, it all started to run
together in my mind. I remember a ra¬
dio operator named Hoffman, who stood
up to go help one of our guys who was
crying for help. He only made a few
steps before he was hit. At one point,
we had a guy hit real bad who was
screaming for help. But, the NVA were
using him for bait. Anyone who went to
help him was shot or shot at pronto.”
SF medic Bob Scully, “was hit real
bad, there was gray matter lying
around ... we had to get him to the
dispensary ASAP.” But the dispen¬
sary was on the south side of camp,
the BOQs were on the northern side
of camp, and the NVA controlled the
TOC which lay in between. A medic
named Henderson gave Scully an I.V.
“I had to put my hand over his mouth
to keep him quiet, because there were
so many NVA,” he recalls. Later,
Henderson carried Scully to the dis¬
pensary.
“I’ll tell you one thing, the SF med¬
ics were their usual outstanding selves.
One medic got a DSC for driving
around camp, picking up the wounded
and getting them back to the dispen¬
sary under heavy constant fire,”
Watson said.
This tragic story of the most Green
Berets killed on a single day during
the Vietnam War has remained
shrouded in secrecy for 25 years until
this exclusive SOF report.
Seventeen U.S. Special Forces sol¬
diers were killed 23 August 1968 in
the top secret Command and Control
North (CCN) outpost in Da Nang when
three North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
sapper companies executed a well-
planned night attack, featuring a dar¬
ing infiltration into the camp.
Top Secret CCN
The veil of secrecy has remained
over this strike for two reasons: It oc¬
curred inside the top secret CCN com¬
pound, and there were embarrassing
breaches in security, without which
the attack would not have been so
deadly. During a lengthy guerrilla war,
even the best of troops and their com¬
manders can become lax, an error the
NVA dramatically exploited at CCN.
Only the outstanding heroics of in¬
dividual Green Berets and some of
the indigenous troops assigned to the
Recon Company prevented the casu¬
alties from exceeding 17.
CCN was under the auspices of the
Military Assistance Command Viet¬
nam — Studies and Observation
Group (MACV-SOG), which oversaw
classified missions run by multiple-
service unconventional warfare troops
throughout Southwest Asia, including
Laos, Cambodia and North Vietnam.
In Green Berets at War , former
Special Forces Captain Shelby L.
Stanton notes those special operations
also extended into Burma and “Yunan,
Kwangsi, Kwangtung and Hainan Dao
Island in China.” The majority of the
personnel running the missions were
Green Berets who were funneled
through the 5th Special Forces Group
in Nha Trang — the command head¬
quarters for all conventional Green
Beret assignments such as A camps
along the border, to the top-secret
Phoenix project. As men arrived at
CCN they signed formal agreements
to not write or speak of these top se¬
cret operations for 20 years.
By August 1968, there were five For¬
ward Operation Bases (FOBs): FOB 1
in Phu Bai, between Hue and Da Nang;
FOB 2 in Kontum; FOB 4 in Da Nang;
FOB 5 in Ban Me Thuot; and FOB 6 in
Ho Ngoc Tao, north of Saigon. FOB 3
in Khe Sahn was being shut down at
that time and was no longer operational.
In 1968 six-man
Teams and Hatchet
sized elements of
Green Berets and
indigenous merce¬
naries) were
launching from
the FOBs or their
or eight-man Spike
Forces (company-
First light showed
enemy dead amid
plywood hooches,
with snipers from
Marble Mountain
and NVA within
camp continuing
the fight.
respective launch
sites on classified
missions, missions
that varied from
area and point re¬
connaissance to
POW snatches,
wiretapping, instal¬
lation of trail sen-
Heavily armed
NVA infiltrated
with small arms,
grenades,
satchel charges,
and had
ordnance
already
smuggled into
camp and
cached.
sors, destruction of
NVA fuel lines and attempts to locate
American POW camps.
Arch Enemies
By that year, the NVA knew well
of MACV-SOG troops. In Laos alone,
intelligence estimates were of 40,000
NVA and Pathet Lao soldiers and at¬
tached personnel who worked on and
guarded the Ho Chi Minh Trail com¬
plex. Part of their job was to attack
the MACV-SOG teams.
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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 33
As far back as 1966 — when mass
media in the United States were still
reporting it as a civil war — the NVA
massed a battalion attack against the
final Special Forces A camp in the A
Shau Valley, thus clearing the most
significant supply and troop infiltra¬
tion route into 1 Corp, in the northern
sector of South Vietnam. Without that
route, the NVA could not have
launched the massive Tet Offensive
in 1968.
Because of the strategic importance
of the A Shau Valley, MACV-SOG
placed a premium on targets run in
that AO. For Spike Teams assigned to
those missions out of FOB 1, they
Well-planned
and rehearsed
nighttime raid
was daring,
effective — but
cost NVA heavily
were the most diffi¬
cult and risky of tar¬
gets: The NVA con¬
trolled the area, there
was no friendly ar¬
tillery support, and
the triple-canopy jungle covered
steep, mountainous terrain which soared
above 5,000 feet in rain forests often
cloaked with clouds, thus curtailing or
precluding the use of air power.
The menace of the A Shau Valley
targets was dramatized in May 1968,
when an entire Spike Team disap¬
peared and another team was devas¬
tated by heavy NVA firepower while
searching for the first team.
Whenever the NVA tangled with a
MACV-SOG team, they suffered
heavy casualties. Thus, the NVA knew
the MACV-SOG teams and the C&C
teams knew and respected the abili¬
ties of the NVA. Clearly, the NVA
wanted to hurt these elite teams —
and hitting them at home would be
hitting them where it hurt.
Unbeknownst to SF personnel at
FOB 4, shortly after Tet in 1968, the
NVA built a sand table of FOB 4 in
the Marble Mountain caves to orga¬
nize the 23 August attack. Marble
Mountain was on the south side of
FOB 4. Highway 1 bordered the west¬
ern perimeter; an NVA POW camp
was situated to the north of FOB
4/CCN, while the China Sea lapped
lazily onto the white sandy beaches
on the compound’s eastern front.
The Enemy Next Door
Marble Mountain was honey¬
combed with caves and trails. South
along the China Sea, the beaches were
flat. Abruptly, the two rugged peaks
of Marble Mountain jutted up, and
cradled between them was a pagoda,
complete with monks who protested
whenever U.S. troops got too close to
their holy temple — but apparently
didn’t seem to mind having NVA or
Viet Cong cadre around.
In support of the conclusion that
the NVA had infiltrated agents inside
the camp is the fact that the NVA
launched this attack when the number
of soldiers within FOB 4 had swelled
well beyond normal: There was an
enlisted promotion board held the pre¬
vious day; all of the FOB command¬
ers, executive officers and their re¬
spective S-3 and S-2 officers held their
monthly meeting earlier in the day;
that, in addition to the fact the popula¬
tion had grown when the CCN head¬
quarters was recently moved from
downtown Da Nang to FOB 4, thus
making it FOB 4/CCN.
“By the time the NVA sappers hit
the camp, there had to be at least twice,
maybe three times as many Special
Forces troops in camp as were nor¬
mally assigned there,” recalls Watkins,
who was in his second tour with
MACV-SOG, at that time out of FOB
1, and had appeared before the pro¬
motion earlier in the day.
The spirit earlier that fateful day
was “typical of any promotion board
gathering,” Watkins said. “There was
a lot of drinking, a lot of partying and
general hell-raising” by the Special
Forces troops. With any promotion
board, the drinking was usually heavy
because many soldiers hadn’t seen
each other for extended periods of
time, and at these gatherings, they
tended to make up for the months apart
during one day’s heavy drinking.
Inside Without A Shot
As America’s elite partied into the
night, NVA sappers quietly prepared
for their attack. One company dressed
in white loincloths, with white
headbands and a piece of white mate¬
rial attached to their AK-47s. Another
wore green loincloths, with matching
green headbands and pieces of mate¬
rial attached to their AKs. The last
company wore red.
The NVA troops began infiltrating
through the thin wire in the southeast
corner of the camp. For months, lo¬
cals who worked at FOB 4 returned
home through Rallying indig
the wire. On that troops, SF and
night, the NVA Spectre returned
’ havoc on
marched right attacking NVA
into camp, sappers.
heavily armed and carrying satchel
charges.
Sometime after 0100 “all hell broke
loose,” said former Green Beret “Red”
Podlaski. “At first, I thought we were
taking incoming.” What many
thought were incoming rounds were
satchel charges exploding through¬
out the compound.
One company attacked the Ameri¬
can recon huts which sat in three north-
“By the time the NVA sappers hit the camp, there had to be at
least twice, maybe three times as many Special Forces troops
in camp as were normally assigned there ...”
34 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
south rows, on the eastern side of the
camp. Another company of NVA hit
the TOC, destroying it and damaging
the commo center. Other sappers hit
the officers’ quarters and transient bar¬
racks at the northwestern quadrant.
Podlaski was a team leader in the
recon company at FOB 4/CCN. The
NVA sappers with satchel charges
went up to the front door and threw
charges into each plywood hut, which
housed two to six GIs.
A medic who was staying with
Lightly clothed
but heavily
armed NVA
sappers carried
prodigious
amounts of
explosives,
appeared to have
been on drugs.
Podlaski that night
later recounted:
“We were lucky.
The front door on
our hootch had an
extra-strong spring
on it, so that the
door was hard to open ... When the
sappers came to our hootch, they
pulled open the door and threw the
satchel charge. But the spring was so
strong, the door closed so quickly that
the charges bounced off the door and
blew up the front step.”
There was so much confusion and
pandemonium the medic and Podlaski
didn’t realize what had happened out¬
side. “Hell, when we ran outside we
didn’t realize the steps had been blown
away so we fell ass over head,”
Podlaski recalls.
As Podlaski and the medic fell, an
NVA sapper opened fire on full auto¬
matic, shooting high: “He fired where
he thought we were
ning. If we hadn’t
fallen, he probably
would have gotten
us ... Running re¬
con in CCN we
had plenty of close
calls in the field,”
said Podlaski, who
ran more than a
dozen targets in
Laos and Cambo¬
dia during his tour
with MACV-SOG,
going to be run-
Compact and
lying between
China Sea and
Highway 1, top
secret
FOB 4/CNN was
only as secure as
its security
procedures:
Taking advantage
of lax security,
NVA dealt a
deadly blow
shortly after Tet
Offensive in 1968.
“but I remember hitting the sand and
disbelieving that the closest call of all
for me was right there in camp, in
CCN, when that sapper opened up on
us. Unbelievable!”
A South Vietnamese CCN recon
team member killed the sapper, as the
indigenous troops rallied from their
quarters.
Watkins was asleep in the BOG
along the northern quadrant of the
camp because the transient billets were
packed with people who had gone be¬
fore the promotion board earlier in
the day.
Like Podlaski, Watkins and sev¬
eral of the officers “were awakened
by the explosions,” Watkins said. “I
thought we were taking incoming at
first. Then, I realized we weren’t tak¬
ing incoming and simultaneously, I
regretted having given my Swedish K
[to a friend] that night.
“All I had was my old Colt .45,
which was in my flight survival vest
... the NVA had knocked the air con¬
ditioners out of the wall and pushed
several satchel charges into the build¬
ing through the holes ...”
Continued on page 79
CAMP ENTRANCE
Helicopter
U.S.
Mess
Sapfjeis. attack
Reeurt taufracks
with chatges
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ENTRANCE
CHINA
SEA
Duo to upside-down maps. NVA attack BOQ, leaving
Indig. troops ^opposite comer of camp) to retaliate.
BOQ g BOQ 1 BOQ Em
‘ Club
Supply
Comm.
Center
U.S. Recon
Barracks
Indig. Mess
Indig.
Barracks
Indig.
Recon
Barracks
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 35
Emm
Outdoor writer and photographer
Caro!ee Boyles-Sprenkel with Rocco
Gioia, owner of Casketf s Ranch.
Boyles-Sprenkel scoredthis impala
ram, as well as a trophy'wildebeest,
shooting a Winchester .375 H&H
Magnu®8 using Federal 270-grain
ammo. Photo: ©alen Geer
Robert Gordon with
trophy-book
waterbuck. Gordon
also took two
trophy impala
rams, a blue
wildebeest and a
kudu, using his
Remington .375
Holt Magnum rifle,
shooting
Winchester-Olin
300-grain ammo.
Photo: courtesy
Robert Gordon
SOP s Editor/
Publisher Robert
K. Brown dropped
his first-ever cape
buffalo with one
round at
75 meters, using a
Winchester
Model-70 Custom
Express .375 Holt
Magnum
employing
Winchester 300-
grain ammo.
Photo: Galen
Geer
MARCH 94
Dennis Martin with zebra taken on
’93 SOF Safari. Martin gets SOFs
prize for persistence; it took five days
to get his zebra. Afterward he told our
professional hunter how he had
recently undergone a heart bypass
operations Photo: Hjalen Geer
sops
by Galen Geer
i#i
%
GaJ&ir Geer, author and SOF'
Late last May, Soldier Of Fortune
sponsored its second annual big-game safari, held at
Caskett’s Ranch, our host Rocco Gioia’s 180,000-acre
game reserve near Hoedspruit, South Africa. Once again
we hunted a variety of animals, with a party consisting of
Dennis Martin, Robert Gordon, Hugo Hartenstein, Florida-
based outdoor writer Carolee Boyles-Sprenkel and SOF ’s
Editor/Publisher Robert K. Brown, along with the
magazine’s Special Projects Director Alex McColl and
myself.
This time, after trying regularly for more than 20
years, Brown finally took a cape buffalo with a single
shot, using a Winchester M-70 Custom Express .375 H&H
Magnum. On numerous African safaris he has routinely
been frustrated hunting cape buffalo. This year Brown got
another opportunity; after checking his rifle’s zero at the
ranch range, our group went out with Gioia and Lexon,
our tracker.
Sometimes a person spends so much time trying to
achieve something that when things finally come together
and the goal is realized, it seems too easy, if something
is missing. That’s how this buffalo hunt went for Brown.
After cutting the spoor of a small buffalo herd around
1430 one afternoon, Lexon conferred with Gioia. The
decision was made to let these buffalo continue to lay in
the shade another half-hour before going into the bush
after them. There was nothing to do but wait, so everyone
found some comfortable rocks or grass and stretched out
— except Lexon. He circled to make sure the herd didn’t
leave the area, then returned around 1500 to begin
the stalk.
Moving into the bush, Brown set his stopwatch to see how
long the stalk took. Following the increasingly fresh spoor,
Lexon led the group, brought up at our rear by Gioia and
Brown. It seemed like only a few minutes had passed
when Lexon pointed ahead and dropped back, letting Gioia
take over for the final stalk. These buffalo were still bed¬
ded down, with no idea they were being hunted. Gioia and
Brown worked their way toward the herd, drawing as
close as they dared, then Gioia picked out a bull for Brown
to shoot.
As Gioia later noted, it was “a very difficult shot, not
Continued on poge 81
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 37
4
Is Truth The First Casualty
In War Books?
by Dale Andrade
In the exclusive world of
special operations, the U.S. Navy
SEALs are at the pinnacle. As their
name implies, they are trained to per¬
form missions in all environments —
SE a, Air and Land — missions they
have performed well since their
program’s inception in 1962. And of
all the highly trained men that make
up the SEALs, one has become almost
a household word: the “Rogue Warrior,”
Richard Marcinko. His book (Rogue
Warrior, Pocket Books, New York,
1992) is the first SEAL memoir to make
The New York Times’ best-seller list and,
for better or worse, it has shaped the
public’s perception of SEALs.
But how accurate is Marcinko’s ac¬
count? Simply put, it’s mostly fiction.
Couched in endless profanity, shame-
Above: The Rogue Warrior on 1967
SEAL publicity tour with scuba gear
and M16A1 mounting 40mm XM-148
grenade launcher. This photo
appeared with a Male magazine
interview at the time touting Marcinko
as “Shark Man of the Delta.”
Photo: New York Daily News
38 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
less self-promotion and petty dema¬
goguery, Marcinko’s memoirs take
aim at other SEALs who, for one rea¬
son or another, did not agree with all
he said and did. But as the SEALs’
self-appointed spokesman, Marcinko
has an obligation to recount events as
they really happened — he has not
done so.
Some of Marcinko’s most egre¬
gious lies come from his days in Viet¬
nam. His vicious pen and total disre¬
gard for the facts wrongly malign the
reputation of a fellow SEAL officer
and desecrate the memory of an en¬
listed man killed while under
Marcinko’s command. Fortunately for
posterity, both incidents can be accu¬
rately reconstructed from documents
and from the memories of SEALs who
were there. Marcinko has had his say;
now it is time for others to speak.
Coalfield Commando
Richard Marcinko joined the Navy
to escape the poverty of Pennsyl¬
vania’s coal country. When he enlisted
in 1958, Underwater Demolition
Teams (UDTs) were the closest thing
to a special operations capability the
Navy had. The UDTs’ history of he¬
roics went back to World War II, when
small teams of frogmen — as they
were affectionately known — led al¬
most every amphibious landing of the
Pacific war, clearing away obstacles
so landing craft filled with Marines
could make it to the beaches. Marcinko
liked what he saw in these unortho¬
dox warriors and envisioned a future
for himself in a UDT.
In 1961 Marcinko joined UDT-21
in Little Creek, Virginia, but there was
already something new on the hori¬
zon. John F. Kennedy’s military policy
of flexible response and the growing
specter of war in Southeast Asia
moved the Navy to form a new kind
of special operations team — the
SEALs. In 1965 Marcinko went
through Officer Candidate School and
was commissioned as an ensign. At
about the same time, the two fledg¬
ling SEAL teams were expanding to
meet the coming commitment in Viet¬
nam; Marcinko joined up.
Vietnam was a crucible that shaped
the SEALs. It was their baptism by fire,
a christening that would justify the faith
placed in them by President Kennedy
when he mandated creation of special
operations forces to counter the burgeon¬
ing tide of Third World revolution.
The first SEALs went to Vietnam
in 1962 as part of the covert opera¬
tions program against North Vietnam.
They advised South Vietnamese boat
crews running raids along North
Vietnam’s coast and helped develop a
training program for what would be¬
come the Provincial Reconnaissance
Units (PRUs), indigenous paramilitary
forces aimed at seeking out and de¬
stroying the Viet Cong’s underground
political infrastructure.
Not until 1966 were SEALs sent as
organic units to Vietnam. They went
to the country’s heavily populated
southern region, the Mekong Delta,
considered by military planners as an
inappropriate place for large Ameri¬
can units with overwhelming fire¬
power. In February of that year a de¬
to avoid civilian casualties. For the next
five years, the SEALs remained in the
Mekong Delta, honing their
counterguerrilla skills and generally
making life difficult for the Viet Cong.
While Vietnam was a test for the
SEAL institution, it was also a test for
each and every individual. Much is
made of a warrior’s first taste of com¬
bat. There is a mystical quality to that
moment when the bullets fly and men
die. When all the barroom bravado is
over and a patrol sets out for the bush,
each man must meet himself and
gather the will to fight. Some will suc¬
ceed, others will fail, but in the end
all combat is reduced to one man
against himself.
The SEALs confronted their devils
— those personal and real — in the
SEAL on shoreline op cleaning out
Viet Cong enclave along the languid,
yet perilous Bassac River, September
1967, some 70 miles southwest of
Saigon. Photo: DoD
tachment from SEAL Team One was
sent to the Rung Sat Special Zone, a
tangled swamp known as a haven for
Viet Cong units.
Elements of SEAL Team Two first
arrived in-country on 31 January 1967.
After orientation in Nha Be, south of
Saigon, the SEALs moved to their
new area of operations — the Bassac
River and its tributaries, a major net¬
work of waterways running parallel to
the great Mekong River. SEAL
Team Two’s deployment was part of an
attempt to expand the U. S. military’s
counterinsurgency capability, while still
keeping the level of combat low enough
Mekong Delta’s maze of waterways
and swamps. From the air, the delta’s
tributaries sparkled like strands of jew¬
els on a verdant velvet carpet of rice
paddies and forests. Seen from the
ground, the delta was a quagmire laced
with canals, rivers and bogs. The
Mekong Delta was heaven for Viet
Cong guerrillas, hell for Americans
and their South Vietnamese allies —
a perfect killing ground for the SEALs.
On 13 March 1967, Ensign
Marcinko got his first taste of combat,
though it was quite different from what
he had expected. Far from being a
flawless extension of his SEAL train¬
ing, Marcinko found that in combat
he was subject to the same uncertainty,
doubt and fallibility as was any other
combat officer — whether elite SEAL
or straight-leg infantryman. Missions
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 39
SEALs halting fishermen s sampan for search in Rung Sat Special Zone, a
tangled region of Mekong Delta swamps and waterways known as a haven for the
Viet Cong. Photo: DoD
go wrong, communications fail, the
enemy doesn’t do what intelligence
predicted he would; in short, the much-
heralded fog of war usually rules the
battlefield. Most men came to under¬
stand this, but Marcinko chose to re¬
member Vietnam in a different way,
ignoring reality for the sake of his
own ego. In the process he maligned
some of his fellow SEALs, men who
were fighting the same devils
of doubt.
Marcinko gave the briefing for that
first mission. According to the plan,
two squads would deploy to different
areas along the Bassac River and set
up ambush positions. Marcinko’s unit,
designated Squad Two Bravo, would
insert on the southern tip of Tan Dinh
Island at night, then set up an ambush
and wait for contact.
Tan Dinh Island, an llkm-long spit
of mud and marsh set in the languid
Bassac, was one of Charlie’s favorite
playgrounds. The rules of engagement
maintained that the entire area was a
free-fire zone after dark, meaning any¬
thing moving on the river was fair
game. Mobile Support Team Two
(MST-2), a detachment from Boat Sup¬
port Unit One (BSU-1), had been de¬
tailed to work with SEAL Team Two’s
2nd and 3rd platoons; for this mission it
would support Marcinko’s Squad Two
Bravo. Overall command of the mis¬
sion went to Lieutenant Larry Bailey,
commander of 3rd Platoon.
Lieutenant Sam Braly, commander
of MST-2, outlined the responsibili¬
ties of his boat support unit, which
included backing Two Bravo and pro¬
viding for its extraction. Two armored
boats would block the narrow river
channel northeast of Tan Dinh Island
and prevent any Viet Cong boats from
escaping. An LCM (Landing Craft,
Medium, also called a “Mike boat”)
carried the supporting SEALs and was
on the west side of the island.
Bailey would man a SEAL Tacti¬
cal Assault Boat (STAB), a small fi¬
berglass craft powered by two 85-
horsepower Mercury outboard en¬
gines. Armed with two M60 7.62mm
Marcinko’s account is the first U.S.
Navy SEAL memoir to make The New
York Times' best-seller list; for better
or worse, Rogue Warrior has shaped
the general public’s current perception
of SEALs.
machine guns on either side, the STAB
was a fast way to get a SEAL squad
into action. The boat’s primary mis¬
sion was to watch the river for signs
of unfriendly craft; its secondary mis¬
sion was to support Marcinko’s team.
At about 2100, Two Bravo went
in. The six men climbed silently over
the side of a second STAB and swam
across the narrow stretch of the dark¬
ened Bassac to Tan Dinh Island. Each
SEAL knew his job instinctively;
months of intense training had seen to
this. Without a word from Marcinko,
the patrol melted into the brush and
took up positions some 50 yards from
the island shore. Then they waited.
For more than an hour nothing
moved. Green and black paint cov¬
ered the SEALs’ faces; every loose
piece of equipment was taped down
to avert noise. It was so quiet even the
insects forgot they were there.
Marcinko had given word he would
trigger the ambush only after a clear
target came into view. Concerned that
any noise might compromise his posi¬
tion, Marcinko turned off the radio,
cutting off all communication with the
support boats. Unknown to him at the
time, this move would set off a con¬
troversy after the mission that would
last a lifetime.
Chief Petty Officer Robert
Gallagher was the last man on the
ambush line. A true warrior, Gallagher
ended his three tours in Vietnam with
a Navy Cross and two Silver Stars.
40 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
But on this mission Gallagher was a
rookie like the rest of his team. He
strained his eyes into the darkness,
but there was little to see save the
glistening river water.
When the firing opened up,
Gallagher was surprised. Not only had
he seen nothing, there had been no
sound, either. But true to his SEAL
training, Gallagher raked his area of
the kill zone with fire from his
AR-15. Thirty seconds later the shoot¬
ing tapered off. The SEALs began
talking excitedly; discipline and cau¬
tion went out the window. Two Bravo
had killed its first communists.
But Gallagher was not sure even
about this. At least he was unclear
about what they had shot at. What¬
ever it was hadn’t shot back. As other
SEALs whooped in victory like Indi¬
ans on the warpath, Gallagher spied a
rickety sampan floating aimlessly into
shallow water near the bank.
“I walked out to the sampan. It was
empty except for some cigarettes and
a watch,” Gallagher said. Where were
the Viet Cong they had supposedly
killed? Where were their weapons?
Gallagher had only a second to pon¬
der these questions before more firing
erupted from the bank. As Gallagher
dove for cover, a grenade thrown by
one of the SEALs exploded in a deadly
geyser less than 10 yards away. Once
again there was no enemy fire. As
Gallagher dove back for shore he
looked around and, he later recalled,
“observed several members of the
squad firing wildly.”
The SEALs’ lack of fire discipline
put their entire squad in danger.
Marcinko could not know if the sam¬
pan was merely the lead element of a
much stronger enemy force. If it had
been, Two Bravo would have been in
deep trouble because, in the excite¬
ment, the SEALs had failed to main¬
tain a tight defensive position. But for¬
tunately the Viet Cong did not attack.
According to after-action reports, the
SEALs insert to clean out Viet Cong
base via assault support patrol boat
along canal system in Kien Hoa
province 50 miles southwest of Saigon,
January 1968. Here they destroyed
some 45 bunkers, including a
propaganda center and two tax
collection stations, detaining 51 VC
suspects for interrogation. Photo: DoD
only hostile fire came from more than
1,500 meters away on the riverbank
southeast of Two Bravo, though it is
likely that this fire came in response
to sounds from the STAB and the Mike
boat moving in the river just south of
Marcinko.
Gallagher and Marcinko tried to
get the squad calmed down, but
adrenaline kept them pumped up.
Shadows became Viet Cong; the river
seemed filled with ghostly sampans.
According to Gallagher, “several
members of the squad continued to
fire out of control” at any sound or
movement. It took several minutes to
end the confusion and form the squad
into a secure perimeter.
Marcinko imagined the worst. In
his book he claims they were about to
be surrounded by a superior force of
Viet Cong coming from the island’s
interior to his squad’s rear. “We took
fire for eight or 10 minutes — an eter¬
nity — while I called and called for
the PBR [Patrol Boat, River] or Mike
boat,” Marcinko wrote. “We moved
down the bank shouting for covering
fire as we slithered, ducked and rolled
our way through the brush, as VC
bullets sliced the leaves just over our
heads ... ”
But no one else heard any firing
nor saw any sign of the enemy. In
fact, everyone on the river was won¬
dering why there was so much fire
from the SEALs and none from the
enemy. American assault rifles make
a distinctly different sound than do
Soviet-designed AK-47s used by the
Viet Cong, noises all men in combat
come to know very well. But no one
recalls hearing the sharp crack of any
AKs. Such a harrowing experience
would certainly be remembered by
other members of the squad, yet
Gallagher recalled how he “did not
detect any incoming fire ... ”
Another member of Marcinko’s
squad confirms Gallagher’s account.
According to Petty Officer Ron
Rodger, there was no close-quarters
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firefight. “I remember that there were
a couple of tracer rounds that flew
over our heads from some unknown
source,” he said, “but I don’t believe
that anyone ever fired at us.”
From the river, Bailey was startled
by the wild firing. His STAB was
headed up the waterway about a half-
mile away, chasing an unidentified
blip reported on the Mike boat’s radar
screen. It turned out to be a South
Vietnamese navy patrol boat heading
upstream. When Bailey broke contact,
he was less than 500 yards directly
west of Marcinko’s position. Ironi¬
cally, he was closer to Two Bravo’s
ambush position after chasing the
South Vietnamese boat than he would
have been had he remained near the
Mike boat. Yet Marcinko later claimed
that by “chasing shadows” up the river,
Bailey had left Two Bravo isolated
and in danger of annihilation.
Although Marcinko claims to have
radioed repeatedly for help (he makes
no mention of having earlier turned
off the radio), neither the Mike boat
nor the STAB heard any such call.
Bailey himself tried time after time to
raise the squad on the radio, but each
time there was no reply. Bailey’s mind
raced — was the squad in trouble? Was
their radioman dead? If they ran into
danger, Two Bravo was supposed to
launch a flare to signal for extraction,
but instead there was only total silence.
After several minutes, Bailey de¬
cided he had to act. Radioing Lt. Braly
aboard the Mike boat, Bailey said he
was going in. Extraction of SEALs in
trouble always took precedence over
other considerations, though Braly
questioned Bailey’s decision to race
to shore and support Marcinko.
“I was concerned and apprehensive
about Lieutenant Bailey’s decision to
approach the ambush site on foot with
absolutely no information regarding
conditions at that site,” Braly said. But
his Mike boat was also unable to con¬
tact Marcinko, so extraction was the
logical next move. Braly’s boat eased
up the river to act as backup for Bailey,
remaining about a half-mile be¬
hind to “avoid congestion in the extrac¬
tion area.”
Bailey’s STAB raced straight for
Two Bravo’s position. He didn’t know
for certain that the Viet Cong were
not already there in force — even if
they weren’t, he stood a good chance
of being shot by Marcinko’s men, who
were clearly already on edge. Bailey
and another SEAL, William
Bruhmuller, dashed onto the shore (a
third man, Ron Fox, remained in the
STAB) and almost immediately ran
into members of Marcinko’s squad.
According to Bailey, these were not
men running for their lives. “They had
lost any semblance of patrol discipline
or security procedures,” he recalled.
“They were rather loudly celebrating
the drawing of their first blood.”
Bruhmuller remembers it the same
way. After he and Bailey came ashore,
“we heard Two Bravo moving in our
direction, laughing and cutting up,”
he said. None of Marcinko’s squad
talked about any firefight. “Usually
after a hot ambush, the guys are
pumped up and it’s awhile before they
settle down. This was not the case
with Two Bravo. Therefore, I deter¬
mined it to be a ho-hum operation.”
Three Kills?
It was 2310 when the gleeful
SEALs left Tan Dinh Island in the
STAB and headed for the Mike boat.
To lend credence to his claim that
Bailey had left him alone, Marcinko
claims it was a 15-minute ride back to
the Mike boat. But the coordinates
given by Braly place the Mike boat
about 1km due south of Two Bravo’s
ambush position — about a two-
minute ride.
Where were the dead Viet Cong?
Two bodies were found; a third was
listed as a “probable kill.” But despite
Marcinko’s later claims that the dead
men had been part of the Viet Cong
political infrastructure, there was little
doubt that these were just a few fish¬
ermen out after dark. Bailey certainly
believed this version. “I was not
greatly disturbed, since the area was a
free-fire zone,” he said. “This meant
that after curfew hours anyone caught
in the area could be shot. But I don’t
think these were hard-core Viet Cong.”
And this seemed to be what some
in Marcinko’s squad believed, even at
the time. According to Bailey, when
Two Bravo’s radioman Jim Watson
was asked about the victims, he re¬
plied that “The fishermen just were in
the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Yet Marcinko was sure he had zapped
some important communist couriers.
Despite the fact that only cigarettes
and a watch were found near the dead
— no documents — the official spot
report filed after the “firefight” re¬
corded three probable kills,
“evaluate[ed] as commo-liaison per¬
sonnel along route known to be used
nightly.”
Whatever Marcinko really believed
happened out on the river that night,
the experience seemed to alter his
sense of reality. His book recollects
Bailey as remaining on the Mike boat
during the ambush, not in the STAB
that raced to his aid; he accuses Bailey
of abandoning Two Bravo in favor of
SEAL armed with Stoner system watches for any movement in thick wooded area
along a jungle stream, South Vietnam, 1968. Photo: DoD
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Marcinko as a U.S. Navy attache in
Cambodia, 1974, on Mekong River
dock with MNK (Maritime Nationale
Khmer) crew aboard PBR. MNK boats
worked to flush out Khmer Rouge
riverside ambush sites before 1975
communist victory. Photo: U.S. Navy
chasing shadows upriver.
Despite Marcinko’s impression that
Bailey “left me hanging out there to
dry,” no one else who was there re¬
calls it this way. Braly clearly remem¬
bers Bailey beaching the STAB in a
frantic effort to help Marcinko. In fact,
Braly had to use the Mike boat’s radar
to vector Bailey’s STAB to
Marcinko’s position in the darkness.
“Today, in retrospect,” Braly ob¬
served, “I think he [Bailey] must have
been either completely insane or pos¬
sessed by an absolutely irresistible
death wish.”
But Marcinko maintains he was
abandoned by Bailey. “I wanted to
kill someone,” he wrote of the first
minutes after Two Bravo’s extraction
from the island. “If Charlie’d fielded
a sizable contingent, Bravo Squad
would be hamburger by now, thanks
to Larry Bailey.” His rage was fueled,
he claims, by orders that the Mike
boat was headed to aid a South Viet¬
namese garrison under attack in a small
fort several kilometers upriver.
Again, Marcinko’s memory fails him.
As the small flotilla pushed off follow¬
ing the ambush, Marcinko made no men¬
tion of any antipathy toward Bailey. In
fact, according to Braly and others,
Marcinko was joking along with the
other SEALs. The fort referred to was a
tiny earthen outpost manned by local
South Vietnamese militia; it was also
on the SEALs’ way home.
The Mike boat’s appearance must
have come as quite a surprise to the
Viet Cong. After launching flares to
light the predawn sky, the SEALs
made three or four firing runs in sup¬
port of the outpost, pouring 81mm
mortar rounds, .50-caliber rounds,
40mm grenades and small-arms fire
into the clearing around the outpost.
Marcinko and his squad took full part
in the firing. As Braly later recalled,
“I believe that they were completely
out of ammuhition when the action
was over.”
But according to Marcinko, his men
wanted no part of the fight. He be¬
lieved Squad Two Bravo was now
above the other SEALs who had not,
as he saw it, been baptized by fire.
“We’d been transformed from war¬
riors into spectators,” observed
Marcinko. He' claims his squad got
back in the STAB while the Mike boat
added its firepower to the besieged
South Vietnamese defense. Marcinko
describes gunning the boat’s engines
Operating in Phoenix program, SEAL
returns captured Viet Cong suspect to
Navy landing craft for interrogation,
1967, Photo: DoD
and racing downriver, twisting “easily
through the waterspouts of enemy fire.”
Actually, the Viet Cong never had a
chance to fire back at the SEALs — nor
did Marcinko leave during the fight.
According to Bailey, Marcinko did
not leave until the Mike boat was sev¬
eral kilometers past the South Viet¬
namese outpost, and even then it was
with the full blessings of other SEAL
officers. But in his book, Marcinko
proudly proclaims how he assaulted a
superior officer and then deserted the
battlefield: “I grabbed two handfuls
of Larry’s [Bailey’s] shirt and brought
us nose to nose ... ” he recalls, adding
that he accused Bailey of cowardice
— “I shoved him up against the cock¬
pit bulkhead ... I felt like breaking the
son of a bitch’s neck.”
Such an encounter, if it occurred,
would certainly result in a court-mar¬
tial. But it didn’t happen, as every
SEAL who was on the Mike boat can
confirm, including Bruhmuller, who
went to the island with Bailey to pick
up Marcinko’s squad. “I never encoun¬
tered an ensign slamming a lieutenant
around. It’s just not a good career
move,” he said.
As commander of the Mike boat,
Braly would have been aware of any
fighting on deck. “To my knowledge,
there was no confrontation between
Ensign Marcinko and Lieutenant
Bailey, certainly not in the vicinity of
the pilot house,” he recalled. “Had a
confrontation ... occurred elsewhere
on the boat, my crew would certainly
have informed me.”
Why invent the story about a con¬
frontation with Bailey? Marcinko
claims Bailey was jealous of Two
Bravo’s martial prowess: “Now he was
trying to get himself a kill, but he was
doing it at the expense of my men,
and I didn’t like that one bit.”
Despite Marcinko’s belated objec¬
tions, the outpost was in dire need of
help and the SEALs performed a valu¬
able service. The South Vietnamese
were so grateful that two days later
the sergeant in charge of the outpost
looked Bailey up to give him a cap¬
tured Viet Cong flag in appreciation
of the extra firepower. But most damn¬
ing to Marcinko’s version of events is
the fact that the outpost was actually
on the SEALs’ way home. Marcinko
claims to have headed downriver for
home, but the SEAL base at Tre Noc,
a small village just outside Can Tho,
was upriver.
The incident is vintage Marcinko.
Throughout his career, it was not
enough to simply construct an image
of himself as a warrior; he also felt it
necessary to tear down the reputations
of other SEAL officers, as if by doing
so he would somehow make himself
seem greater still. For in Marcinko’s
eyes there could be only one true war¬
rior. This same philosophy was foisted
onto his enlisted men. Marcinko ap-
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parently believed his war stories bol¬
stered the reputations of those men,
along with his own, but the reality was
he only brought them down to his level.
Squad Two Bravo’s men are trans¬
formed by Marcinko’s fictions from a
group of professional and highly dis¬
ciplined operators into a gang of ren¬
egades who willingly left their com¬
rades during an engagement, simply
because their commander was angry
at one of his fellow officers. This is
hardly a compliment to Marcinko’s
men — fortunately, it isn’t true.
Backstabbing SEAL
Just one day after the Bassac River
incident, Marcinko spread rumors
around the base club at Tre Noc that
Bailey had deserted Two Bravo dur¬
ing a fight. Outraged by the accusa¬
tion, Bailey went to the SEAL detach¬
ment commander, Lt. Jake Rhinebolt,
to ask for an investigation.
After interviewing Marcinko’s
squad members and the Mike boat
crew, Rhinebolt concluded “there was
no lack of proper support” from either
lieutenants Braly or Bailey, noting the
accusations were “more likely a case
of first-operation jitters on Ensign
Marcinko’s part.” The bottom line,
according to Rhinebolt, was that
“Lieutenant Bailey acted properly in
all he undertook that night.”
Perhaps Lt. Robert Gormly, another
SEAL Team Two squad leader, best
summed up this incident. Although he
did not play a direct role in the events of
13 March 1967, he was well-aware of
Marcinko’s backstabbing of Bailey.
Gormly laughed at the entire episode,
saying, “It was early in our deployment
and none of us were combat-hardened
— some were seeing VC behind every
mangrove tree.” But Marcinko could
never be so circumspect.
Upon leaving Vietnam after his first
tour, Marcinko was convinced he was
a warrior and leader of men. His squad
had suffered no serious casualties —
a record he was rightly proud of —
and he had seen them transformed
from a group of undisciplined hot¬
heads into an efficient team. But
Marcinko also came back with a
skewed notion of war and death.
The unrestrained small-unit com¬
bat practiced by SEALs in the Mekong
Delta put the final touches on
Marcinko’s one undiluted professional
characteristic: his knack for stepping
on toes and ruffling feathers, usually
those of officers above him in the chain
of command. Marcinko hid his temer¬
ity behind the mantle of “unit integ¬
rity,” a concept he defined as “screw
everybody but us.”
In itself, unit integrity is a sound
Spit-and-polish Rogue Warrior as SEAL
Team Two commander. Marcinko made
many enemies in the SpecOps
community, but he did possess
operational savvy. His book,
unfortunately, often concentrates on
phony heroics. Photo: U.S. Navy
concept, one which keeps men in battle
alive. But Marcinko took it further,
creating a web of loyalty and patron¬
age that would make a mafioso proud.
Marcinko claimed to do everything
for his men, but in reality his career
always came first. He wanted blind
followers, men who were willing to
subscribe to a world view with
Marcinko at its center. And there were
many who fell under his spell; he made
them part of his gang. In the words of
one SEAL who knew Marcinko in
Vietnam, “He went to the top of Mount
Olympus and looked down on his sub¬
jects. Anyone who would not climb
the slopes to be with him was treated
like a heretic.”
The bottom line was booze. It per¬
meated Marcinko’s existence to the
point where he made it an integral
part of his life’s philosophy. “When,
as an officer, my most important job
is to build unit integrity,” Marcinko
eulogized, “there are few better places
to build it than late at night, in a bar,
when it’s you and your five guys
against the rest of the world.” At least
two aspects of this alcoholic ideology
would shadow Marcinko throughout
his career: incessant drunkenness and
the notion that it was always he and
his “guys” against everybody else.
In December 1967, Marcinko —
now a lieutenant, junior grade — was
back in Vietnam, this time as com¬
mander of SEAL Team Two’s 8th Pla¬
toon. On the eve of the Tet Offensive,
he and his SEALs were in Chau Doc
province, right on the Cambodian bor¬
der at the southern tip of South Viet¬
nam. Although the Tet lunar New
Year’s holiday was traditionally hon¬
ored by both sides with a cease-fire,
the Viet Cong could generally be re¬
lied upon to break the truce. In 1968
they planned to violate the cease-fire
in a big way, though at the time the
U.S. military only suspected that
something was going to happen.
Marcinko’s platoon, along with a
local PRU force, were involved in a
joint operation executed along the
Cambodian border. In the early hours
of 31 January, they ran into groups of
Viet Cong massing for an attack. At
the time they could not know they
were witnessing the Tet Offensive’s
outbreak. Vastly outnumbered, the
SEAL and PRU troops withdrew to
Chau Doc City, Less than two hours
later — a little after 0300 — the Viet
Cong attacked, striking the provincial
capital with 1,400 men.
Although they were not trained in
the deadly art of urban combat, the
SEALs did what they could to bolster
the local defense. Marcinko’s 8th Pla¬
toon and a handful of American PRU
advisers scattered around the city, lend¬
ing their firepower wherever it was
needed. In the city center, a small team
of SEALs found the Viet Cong tactical
headquarters, set up curiously in a movie
theater; they tried to knock it out.
Marcinko creates yet another
mythological scene in his retelling of
this battle. Once again he plays the
warlord as savior and, once again,
there are incompetent, higher-ranking
fools standing in the way of his
derring-do. But this time there is a
new twist: Marcinko as martyr, for it
was in Chau Doc that he lost one of
his men.
Petty Officer Clarence T. Risher
was the only SEAL killed while under
Marcinko’s command, a fact which
clearly hurt him deeply. But it should
come as no surprise that Risher’s story
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The litany of lies, arrogance
and incompetence demonstrated by the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Fire¬
arms (ATF) in its bloody raid at the
Branch Davidian Church near Waco,
Texas, was an anomaly, a unique de¬
viation.
Or so the U.S. Department of the
Treasury’s follow-up report would
have us believe.
“Despite the flaws exposed by the
events outside Waco ... ATF has a
history of success,” its final paragraph
reads. “That fine tradition, together
with the line agents’ commitment to
the truth and their courage and deter¬
mination, has enabled ATF to provide
our country with a safer and more se¬
cure nation under law.”
But to those who track ATF’s en¬
forcement operations, the facts tell
another story. The Waco case is not
the dead end of a temporarily aberrant
diversion. It is only the most remark¬
ably tragic stop along a dark road.
Waco is the result of a quarter-cen¬
tury of contempt for the U.S. Consti¬
tution and especially its Second
Amendment, the logical extension of
long-unchecked enforcement abuses
and a fundamental belief by ATF that
it is above the law.
Though hardly comparing with
what the ATF did in the Waco case,
there are many examples that demon¬
strate an institutional pattern of be¬
havior by bureau agents. Alert
Soldier Of Fortune readers have
brought many of these to our atten¬
tion. This article is the first in a series
ME FLEW THBOOGB
THE CUCKOO S NET
25 January 1993 — Police remove body of one shooting victim from car at
intersection outside CIA’s main gate in McLean, Virginia, after Mir Aimal Kansi
calmly walked from car to car firing AK-47. Inept ATF agent’s dismissal of area
gun dealer’s positive ID of Kansi provided killer plenty of time to flee to Pakistan,
then vanish. Photo: AP/Wide World
BATF Gumshoes Let CIA Assassin Escape
by lames L. Pate
of occasional stories that will share
these examples in the hope that, one
day, members of Congress will de¬
mand from ATF strict accountability
for its actions — common decency
and respect toward the citizens it
should serve instead of subjugate.
This case — a prime example of
ATF’s frequent investigative inepti¬
tude — occurred about a month be¬
fore the Waco raid. It is yet another
instance in which investigators, instead
of compiling information and evaluat¬
ing it logically, picked a suspect and
then sent agents into the streets to find
evidence to support their conclusions.
Mir Aimal Kansi could have been
just another frustrated driver stuck
in the morning rush-hour traffic of
metropolitan Washington, D.C. But
the long line of cars in which the Pa¬
kistani waited on Monday, 25 January
1993, was poised to turn left into the
main gate of the Central Intelligence
Agency headquarters in McLean, Vir¬
ginia. And Kansi was not just another
pissed-off motorist.
Stepping from his car with an AK-
47 rifle, Kansi moved quickly, put¬
ting the rifle barrel right up to the
window glass of each victim’s stopped
vehicle before squeezing the trigger.
Moving methodically, Kansi shot five
men, all but one of them CIA employ¬
ees. One of the two fatalities was Frank
A. Darling, 28, a CIA covert opera¬
tions officer. Darling’s wife Judy, also
a CIA employee, was sitting next to
him with a front-seat view of her
husband’s murder.
Rifle in hand, Kansi ran back to a
brown Datsun hatchback, jumped in,
wheeled around in traffic and sped
away, disappearing into the rush-hour
confusion.
Speculation began immediately
over whether the shooting was a bra¬
zen “hit,” or if the crime scene’s loca¬
tion just outside the CIA complex was
coincidental. ATF jumped into the case
immediately, along with the FBI, the
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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 45
WANTED BY THE FBI
UNLAWFUL FLIGHT TO AVOID PROSECUTION
CAPITAL MURDER
MIR AIMAL KANSI
DESCRIPTION
Date of Birth: February 10,1964; Place of Birth: Pakistan; Height: 5’5"; Weights 54 lbs.;
Build: medium; Hair: biack, medium length; Eyes: black; Complexon: dark; Sex: male;
Nationality: Pakistani; Remarks: Kansi was wearing a tan jacket and dark- colored pants
(possibly blue jeans). Kansi was last seen driving a dull medium-brown 1970's or early
1980's compact station wagon. Social Security Numbers Used: 225-65-2625,
230-59-2345.
CAUTION
KANSI IS BEING SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING OF FIVE
INDIVIDUALS, UTILIZING AN AK-47 ASSAULT RIFLE. THE SHOOTING
OCCURRED OUTSIDE CIA HEADQUARTERS, LANGLEY, VIRGINIA, AND
RESULTED IN TWO DEAD AND THREE WOUNDED. KANSI HAS BEEN IN
POSSESSION OF OTHER ASSAULT RIFLES AND SHOULD BE CONSIDERED
ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
$1 million reward on Kansi’s head won’t likely be collected — he
ducked the feds with relative ease. Poster: courtesy FBI
CIA and several state and
local agencies. No doubt
wanting to impress the big
boys, the ATF went in
thinking they had it all fig¬
ured out.
According to several
people familiar with this
ATF investigation, the
case supervisors quickly
picked a suspect — the
wrong one. ATF targeted
Michael Murray, a
Fairfax County, Vir¬
ginia, man who handed
out meticulously typed,
disjointed hellfire-and-
brimstone religious dia¬
tribes. These occasional
rantings — a copy of one
was obtained by SOF —
were aimed at “U.S. in¬
telligence personnel.”
Murray had been sus¬
pected of painting anti-
CIA slogans on street
pavement and bridge
abutments, investigators
told SOF.
ATF agents fanned
out, checking the thou¬
sands of gun dealers in
the region to find out if
— where — their sus¬
pect had bought an AK-
47. The morning after
the shootings, an ATF
agent visited the gun
store where the murder weapon had
been purchased. An employee there
who happened to see a composite
sketch drawn from eyewitness ac¬
counts told the ATF agent that the
man he was looking for was Mir Aimal
Kansi.
The store manager quickly located
an ATF Form 4473 with Kansi’s name
on it. Kansi had picked up the AK-47
only four days earlier. The ATF agent
seemed disinterested, continuing to
look through a pile of 4473s for a
form with the name of the suspect
ATF had already decided on.
Interesting Coincidences
CIA agent Frank Darling had not
been assigned to headquarters very
long before his murder, The Washing¬
ton Times reported. He and his wife,
the former Judy Becker, had met while
both were working for the CIA in Mi¬
ami; they married in October 1992.
Frank Darling’s cover assignment in
Florida was to gather intelligence on
the Cuban government. But an intelli¬
gence source quoted by the Times im¬
plied Darling may have also been in¬
volved in a Miami-based CIA opera¬
tion allegedly funneling guns to Af¬
ghanistan through Pakistan. That op¬
eration, according to the Times , was
exposed when a military-arms broker
was sentenced to prison for selling $65
million in weapons to Iraq’s Saddam
Hussein. His defense rested on a claim
that he was working for the CIA, which
he said set up an arms pipeline to aid
the mujahideen in Afghanistan. The
pipeline involved weapons shipped
from the United States to Iraq, then
forwarded to a mujahideen supply base
in Quetta, a provincial capital about
midway along Pakistan’s border with
Afghanistan.
The CIA, of course, denied knowing
anything about the gunrunner or his
story. It was interesting that he men¬
tioned Quetta, though, a smaller-sized
city that was a launch¬
ing pad for CIA opera¬
tions into nearby Af¬
ghanistan.
Quetta is also the
hometown of Mir
Aimal Kansi, who be¬
longs to a politically
prominent family.
Kansi’s uncle, Malik
Gul Hasan Kansi,
was an adviser to
Pakistan’s late Presi¬
dent Mohammed Zia
ul-Haq. Zia and his fol¬
lowers were targeted by
a terrorist group called
al-Zulfiqar . (Zia was
eventually assassinated,
killed when a hidden
bomb exploded on his
plane in 1988.)
In a scenario eerily
prescient of the shoot¬
ing outside CIA head¬
quarters, Malik Kansi
was killed in 1984
when a gunman
walked up next to his
car and fired from ex¬
tremely close range.
Pakistani officials said
Malik Kansi was
killed by a relative
irate over a land deal.
But intelligence ana¬
lysts theorized it might
be a hit by al-Zulfiqar
terrorists, proxy in a CIA plot.
Mir Aimal Kansi entered the United
States illegally {sound familiar?) in
March 1991. In February 1992 he ap¬
plied for political asylum and, in the
meantime, was granted a one-year
work permit. He got a job driving a
cab in the metro-D.C. area and shared
an apartment with Zahed Mir, another
Pakistani. During the summer, Kansi
landed a second job with Excel Cou¬
riers in Herndon, Virginia — the only
courier service authorized to make de¬
liveries to CIA headquarters. (Kansi
was not on the list of couriers ap¬
proved for such deliveries.)
Excel’s owner Christian Marchetti
shares office space with his dad, Vic¬
tor Marchetti. Until his retirement in
1969, Victor Marchetti was a CIA
agent, an executive assistant to CIA
Director Richard Helms. The elder
Marchetti told The Washington Post
he doubts Kansi has any link to the
CIA, but noted “in the secret business
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Next to portrait of her murdered husband, Judy Darling testifies before U.S. Senate
Judiciary Committee last August during hearings on “assault weapons.”
Photo: AP/Wide World
of intelligence — which is a wilder¬
ness of mirrors, someone once said —
anything is possible.”
David Condon Inc., where Kansi
bought the AK-47 used in the CIA
shootings, is not just another gun shop.
Located in Chantilly, Virginia, its
owner and namesake stands out in the
retail firearms business. He is known
throughout this country and abroad for
fine firearms, including handguns and
long guns, sporting and collectible
pieces. The store does not generally
stock military-type long guns.
Condon and his business, as well as
its resident master gunsmith David J.
Fischer, are well-known to the
Smithsonian Institution. Condon is con¬
sulted on firearms acquisitions and
Fischer regularly works with the
Smithsonian on the restoration, repair
and maintenance of rare and antique guns.
Waiting Period No Deterrent
While clerks are paid an hourly
wage plus a sales commission, Condon
values business integrity over sales
volume. The store has a standing
policy unusual in the gun business: If,
for any reason, a Condon sales clerk
feels uncomfortable or suspicious
about a potential customer, the clerk
may refuse to make the sale. After the
customer leaves, the clerk gets an im¬
mediate $10 bonus.
One part-time clerk who confirmed
that policy is City Sheriff Steve Bittle
of Falls Church, Virginia, who assisted
Kansi the first time Kansi ever came
into Condon’s store in early January
1993. Bittle, who has almost 30 years
of law enforcement experience, said
he sold Kansi a Colt AR-15 rifle and a
Makarov pistol. After Kansi filled out
the state and federal forms and pro¬
duced a driver’s license to prove his
Virginia residency, Bittle telephoned
the Virginia State Police for a crimi¬
nal records check, which checked out
OK. But a 72-hour waiting period on
the purchase of a handgun, enacted in
Fairfax County about 25 years ago,
made it necessary for Kansi to return
to pick up the Makarov.
Kansi returned for the Makarov on
16 January, Bittle said, nine days be¬
fore the CIA shootings. Because his
waiting-period card had been ap¬
proved, Kansi exercised his option to
buy another handgun. He picked out a
Beretta .25-caliber semiautomatic and
paid cash.
Several days later, when Bittle was
not working at the gun store, Kansi
called back to say he did not like the
AR-15 and wanted to buy an AK-47
instead. Store manager Britton
Condon, the owner’s son, said he told
Kansi they would arrange a trade. The
store got the AK-47 from A&A Guns,
a Fairfax dealer, then called Kansi back
and told him it was ready for pickup.
Foreboding Fieldstrip
On 22 January, Kansi returned with
the Colt, which he traded with addi¬
tional cash for the AK-47. Bittle
wasn’t working at the gun store that
day, so Britton Condon helped Kansi.
It turned out Kansi did not like the
Colt because, after taking it apart for
cleaning, he was unable to correctly
reassemble the weapon. Condon asked
Fischer to come out to the counter
and make sure Kansi knew how to
take the AK-47 apart and correctly
put it back together.
Kansi was “very well-mannered,
very well-spoken,” the gunsmith told
SOF. “He was attentive, real quiet. I
told him how to break it down and
clean it. I spent about 20 or 30 min¬
utes with him, so I got a pretty good
look at him.”
Four days later — the morning af¬
ter the CIA shootings — an ATF agent
in brown loafers, blue jeans, sport coat
and fanny-pack holster showed up. He
flashed his badge, Britton Condon re¬
called, and asked to look through the
store’s Form 4473s to see who had
bought any Kalashnikov-type rifles in
the past year.
The ATF agent, whose name nei¬
ther Condon nor Fischer can remem¬
ber, apparently had already made up
his mind on whom the CIA shooting
culprit was and “didn’t ask me if any¬
one had bought AKs recently,” Britton
Condon said. “He led me to believe
Falls Church, Virginia, City Sheriff
Steve Bittle. Working as a part-time
clerk in a suburban D.C.-area gun
store, Bittle twice dealt with Mir Aimal
Kansi, wanted for the brazen
shooting of CIA agent Frank Darling
and four others just outside Agency
headquarters. Photo: James L. Pate
he was looking for a guy named
Murray. I did a computer search for
Murray,” which was negative. “He
seemed sure it was Murray.”
In the meantime Fischer returned
from a dental appointment, asked why
the ATF agent was there and then re¬
minded Condon that Kansi had picked
up an AK-47 only days before. It was
memorable, Condon said, because the
store sells “very few” of that type of
weapon.
Condon pulled a Form 4473 with
Kansi’s name and address and showed
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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 47
Does Uncle Sam Need A Forei
by Colonel David IlaeJkwoi-lIi
■
Id like to have two armies:
One for display with lovely guns,
tanks , little soldiers, staffs, distin¬
guished and doddering generals, and
dear little regimental officers who
would be deeply concerned over their
generals bowel movements or their
colonels piles, an Army that would
be shown for a modest fee on every
fairground in the country.
The other would be the real one,
composed entirely of young enthusi¬
asts in camouflaged uniforms, who
would not be put on display but from
whom impossible efforts would be
demanded and to whom all sorts of
tricks would be taught. Thais the
Army in which l should like to fight.
— Jean Larteguy, The Centurions
I once served in a u.s. Army
unit composed of hard-core warriors
and led by centurions. It was the “real
one” Larteguy wrote of. It was sort of a
throwback to another age — the pre-
World War II “Brown Shoe” army.
My regiment, the 351st Infantry,
was a crack unit of hand-picked
“young enthusiasts.” To get into this
elite unit, a trooper had to be a gung-
ho iicUCd charger with a spotless record,
have an IQ of 100 or abq^ — which
was kind of rockef fecience stuff back
then — have no sick call with the
dreaded clap and no company pun¬
ishment (now UCMJ, Article 15). In
fhort, all TRUST (Trieste U.S.
Troops) troopers were Jean and mean
pjros. This elite regiment was based in
northern Itijly between 1945 and f 054,
and its only connection with the other
U.S. Army was a boat that sailed into
the port of Trieste from the States
once a month, bringing mail, replace¬
ments and supplies.
Th£ problems affecting the other
Arm^U^ver bothered us pd, for that
matter, never contaminated (the imn-
disciplined TRUST, who could drill
and drink as well as we could fight*
We existed in a microcosm of times
past where standards were old-horse-
cavalry-unit exact and discipline was
combat-readiness-razor-sharp. Yet
morale was sky high. Almost every
TRUST private first class could run a
platoon in that other Army in the blink
of an eye. From my reconnaissance
squad, every member who stayed in
the Army became at least a master
sergeant or was commissioned.
In many ways, our proud regiment
Say "foreign*legion”and most wHl think of
french Foreign Legion, like this unit on Corsica,
which has efficiently served foreign military
Interests of ^France from colonial times to today.
Photo: Bill Brooks
t
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existed in a time warp. It was an old
soldier’s dream. The colonel, captains
and sergeants were a law unto them¬
selves. Our skippers followed the
tough little pre-Doolittle Board red
book (UCMJ), which, back during
World War II, had one hell of a bite.
Discipline and order were never a
problem. NCOs ran everything. In four
years I seldom got into trouble, but if
I did, the old Sarge would usually say,
“You want to work for me or the cap¬
tain?” NCO punishment was swift, fair
and firm: two weeks of making big
rocks small with a 16-pound sledge,
from after evening
chow to taps. After
that, all was forgot¬
ten. There was no
paperwork, no bust,
no record and no
hard feelings when
the punishment was
worked off.
In 1950, it was
my turn to take the
boat home and join
that other Army. I
was blown away
that we both wore
the same uniform.
The standards, the
discipline, the fight¬
ing ability were like
comparing a Roman
chariot to an
Abrams tank. In
Italy, we were a lost warrior tribe in
the middle of the Amazon, happily
maintaining the martial standards of a
time long past.
Unfortunately, we cannot dial back
the past. As a result, the future of the
American profession of arms doesn’t
look real good. Congresspersons like
Pat Schroeder — bleeding hearts for
social opportunity and equality, such
as homosexuals openly serving in our
military, women being grunts and ev¬
ery recruit having a spouse — are not
advocates of kill-or-be-killcd combat
readiness. This harebrained group of
do-gooders and social engineers has
lowered standards and made our mili¬
tary more like the post office than a
24-hour a day, hard-charging life-and-
death fighting organization. Com¬
pounding the social experiments
brought on by the Schroeders and
Clintons — who all have a record of
“loathing” the military — are the new
managerial-type top generals running
the show today. They are more like
super salesmen than warrior leaders
and are quick to accept the changes
coming down from the huggy-feely
“the-military-is-a-big-happy-labora-
tory-for-social-change” civilian lead¬
ers. Unfortunately, the motto of most
of the top brass is “go along to get
along at any price.” For many, career
and personal ambition go before the
welfare of their men.
Today, real warriors — those won¬
derful, rare animals — seldom reach
the top NCO or officer ranks, except
in special units: Marine Recon, Spe¬
cial Forces, SEALs, Rangers and the
rare line unit whose top kick and/or
CO is a centurion throwback willing
to challenge a “civilianized” military
establishment that has more depen¬
dents than trigger pullers. As a result,
there are few hard-core units left. The
U.S. military has gradually become a
job, not a calling. It is no longer the
selfless profession of arms that Gen¬
eral Douglas MacArthur spoke of at
West Point in 1962 when he said,
“Through all this welter of [social]
change and development, your mis¬
sion remains fixed, determined, invio¬
lable — it is to win our wars. Every¬
thing else in your professional career
is but corollary to this vital dedica¬
tion. All other public purposes, all
other public projects, all other public
needs, great or small, will find others
for their accomplishment; but you are
the ones who are trained to fight; yours
is the profession of arms.”
The Army with “lovely guns, tanks
... distinguished and doddering gener¬
als” made its last charge during Desert
Storm when it refought World War II.
The new face of war will be low-in¬
tensity conflicts: terrorist stuff, eth¬
nic, religious and tribal fights that our
all-volunteer, down-sized armed forces
— along with their wives, children
and fat headquarters — won’t be able
to handle. Nor will our Congress or
the American people, who want swift,
bloodless wars followed by confetti-
sprinkled victory parades and instant
Schwarzkopf-like heroes who mod¬
estly tell us, “It doesn’t take a hero.”
There are more flagpoles than fight¬
ing holes in today’s armed forces, and
Clinton is doing
his level best to
hollow it out even
more. Because of
a shortage of
funds, wrong¬
headed priorities
and no real strat¬
egy? our armed
forces will be con¬
fined to garrison
and peacekeeping/
humanitarian/re¬
lief operations.
Missouri Con¬
gressman Ike
Skelton estimates
that by year’s end,
the U.S. Army
alone could have
about half of its
combat division
tied up in peacekeeping roles in hot
spots like the Golan Heights, Soma¬
lia, Haiti, Sinai and Macedonia. He
says these missions cast “grave doubts
on the ability of the U. S. military to
accomplish the stated national mili¬
tary strategy.”
Soldiers To Defend Our State
Of Denial
Then there’s all that blood — which
few people in America have the stom¬
ach for — that will come our way in
the nightmare facing the planet Earth
during the post Cold War, new world
disorder. Yes, the Cold War is over.
But war ain’t going away, it will just
come in smaller, more nasty doses.
Look at the Balkans, Haiti, Cambodia
and Somalia, post-Cold War hot spots,
where the U.N. peace force has proven
to be a toothless, multi-layered and
ineffective giant.
With the end of the Cold War, the
former Soviet enemy is eating itself
up, republic by former republic. Amid
Former SOF staffer and French legionnaire Bill Brooks and friend guard bridge
in Djibouti. French Foreign Legion was formed when French empire stretched
from Africa to Asia, South America to South Pacific. Could present U.S. global
interests be served by similar legion? Photo: courtesy Bill Brooks
50 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
AMERICAN FREEDOM FORCE
I enthusiastically endorse Dave Hackworth's "American Freedom
Force" concept. As usual. Hack has come forward with an imaginative
idea that makes both military and economic sense.
The French have been well-served by their Foreign Legion. The
Gurkha units recruited by the British in Nepal have made an equally
great contribution to the battle history of the British army. The recruit¬
ment methods of some "foreign legions" would not wash with the
American people, but the principle is sound as long as It is used to
recruit the cream — not the dregs — of foreign military personnel.
Our own experience with Philippine Scouts, CIDG units in Vietnam,
and KATUSAs (Korean Augmentation to the U.S. Army) should have
demonstrated that the concept is both sensible and cost effective.
Consider the KATUSA program, which was started in the Pusan
Perimeter days of the Korean War and remains in place today.
KATUSAs have constituted roughly 20% of the enlisted ranks of the
U.S. units serving in South Korea. They are paid on the same scale as
the Korean army (a fraction of the pay for U.S. counterparts) and
remain with the U.S. units for their entire service three years — as
opposed to the one-year tour by U.S. soldiers. Thus, they lend continu¬
ity and relieve personnel turbulence associated with the one-year
"hardship tour" served by U.S. soldiers.
Hack's creative concept has been brought forward at a timely
moment. Given the fact that we are now the only superpower, we must
face the fact that situations will arise that make U.S. military interven¬
tion inevitable. Nevertheless, the sensitivity to U.S. casualties is not
likely to lessen. Also, we should be seeking a force structure that is
highly cost effective. Hack's idea fills the bill on both counts and
therefore merits serious consideration.
A final thought: only the best natural leaders have proven effective
in the command of foreign troops. Hopefully somewhere in the ranks
of today's Army there are some potential Hollingsworths, Hackworths,
Moores, Halys and Beckwiths who could provide the inspiring leader¬
ship that such a bold concept requires.
— Lf. Gen. Hank Emerson
the debris and chaos of their collapse,
many gang leaders, war lords and as¬
pirant dictators are grabbing power and
turf, not only in the old “Evil Em¬
pire,” but all over the world. America
has been getting sucked into these
quagmires one by one in our new
Robocop/surviving world superpower/
Red Cross/Salvation Army role. So
far, our win record has not been good,
mainly because we have sent the
wrong teams and have been under con¬
trol of the United Nations.
What is needed is a new team that
can jump into these fights when
America’s national interest is involved
and slug it out, take the occasional
pounding and not draw the heat from
a liberal press — most of whom, like
the majority of the yuppy-filled White
House and Departments of State and
Defense, have never worn a uniform
except in some private finishing
school. A reluctant Congress and reti¬
cent citizens will resist sending popu¬
lar regular personnel to fight in these
unpopular wars.
The new military team I have in
mind that would be designed to fight
in the messy little wars could be called
“The American Foreign Legion” or
“American Freedom Force.” Its mili¬
tary model would be the French For¬
eign Legion, a force I observed closely
during Desert Storm and more recently
in Somalia. They are the finest war¬
riors, pound for pound, and finest
fighting force I've seen since my days
in Trieste. During the Legion’s proud
163-year history, it has served France
well with a force of tough, nonpoliti¬
cal, highly disciplined, inexpensive,
professional light infantry fighters.
Such warriors are ideally suited for
the little fights which are going to
come down the track fast and furious
in the years ahead.
Been There, Done That
We’ve used foreign volunteers be¬
fore, except instead of calling them
the American Foreign Legion, they went
under other names, such as the Ameri¬
can Regular Army Cadre Philippines
Scouts or, during the Vietnam War, the
5th Special Forces Group’s Civilian Ir¬
regular Defense Group (CIDG) — a
50,000 man, damn-capable force com¬
posed of ethnic and tribal minorities
mostly from Vietnam’s hinterlands, led
by American elite Green Beret warriors.
Both the Scouts and the CIDG were far
more effective, less costly and less po¬
litically troublesome than a regular U.S.
unit. Throughout the Vietnam War, de¬
spite dumb missions laid on them by
conventionally warped brass, the CIDG
was extraordinarily effective.
In 1971, I had operational control
of Company D, 5th Special Forces
Group, when I ran the delta’s 44th
Special Tactical Zone’s advisory com¬
mand. Each of the 13 Special Forces
A teams controlled about 1,000 mainly
ethnic Cambodian fighters. These bat¬
talions conducted highly effective op¬
erations along the Cambodian border
and on occasion, when they were
“lost,” foraged into Cambodia and
knocked the hell out of the North Viet¬
namese. They later converted from
Special Forces to what were called
“Border Rangers.” As Special Forces
and later Rangers, they were far more
effective than the supposedly elite
South Vietnamese Rangers, marines
and parachute units the zone frequently
had operational control of — and they
required far less logistical support. In
sum, they were lean, mean, awesome
soldiers who fought hard and had a
lethal sting — and there were initially
only 11 Americans per battalion.
Other nations with
external interests formed
foreign legions. Spanish
Foreign Legion, shown
here during operations to solidify
Spanish Moroccan position in mid-
1920s, was organized by gifted but
wildly eccentric Millan Astray (inset)
who recruited by emptying Spanish
jails with offers inmates couldn’t
refuse. No longer accepting
foreigners or criminals, Spanish
Foreign Legion still serves. Photo:
Postal-Expres; inset: Spanish Ministry
of Information
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 51
The major advantage of forming
an American Foreign Legion would
be that the USA would have a dedi¬
cated light infantry force composed
of foreign volunteers that could be rid¬
den hard in unpopular low intensity
conflicts, and in peacekeeping and hu¬
manitarian missions- Our regular
forces could train for and focus on
preparing to fight regional conflicts
such as with North Korea, Iran and
Iraq. Their military readiness would
not be degraded by the “little wars”
and our national security wouldn’t be
impaired. The press and American
people wouldn’t go nuts either, when
the AFL took casualties, because the
body bags wouldn’t be filled with
corn-fed boys from Iowa, but rather
with volunteers from El Salvador, Po¬
land and Nepal. Our media and civil¬
ians would look upon their AFL casu¬
alties as the citizens of Rome looked
at a gladiator going down: “Well, too
bad, but that’s the dude’s job.”
All Tooth And No Tail
Warriors below the grade of first
sergeant couldn’t be married, so there
wouldn’t be morale problems or other
such downer baggage brought on by
low pay and long separations from
home base. Units would deploy to an
operational area and stay there until
the mission was accomplished. Unit
turbulence (which haunts our regular
forces today, with an average turn¬
over of 30% to 40% in TO&E Army
combat units) would be limited to only
losses from casualties. Thus unit co¬
hesion — that critical teamwork which
comes from working together —
would be greatly enhanced because of
the longterm institutional memory that
would come from knowing the ter¬
rain, the enemy and each other like
one knows his own front teeth. Disci¬
pline would be Brown-Shoe-Army
rigid and ramrod tough because in¬
spectors general, congressional inquir¬
ies and an inquiring press wouldn’t be
around to intimidate COs from de¬
manding that their warriors be exact-
ingly trained and rigidly disciplined.
Nor would these hard-core warriors,
while on operations, drink cold Coke,
watch movies and USO shows and
have R&R trips on luxury liners or to
foreign cities as our pampered regular
forces did during Vietnam and Desert
Shield. All such morale and comfort
goodies would be shut off until the
job was done, leaving few people bring¬
ing up the rear: It would be a force of
minimum tail and maximum tooth.
There would be no bulky overhead
as in the U.S. military. For example,
during Vietnam and also Desert Storm,
behind every frontline warrior there were
at least 10 rear-echelon commandos
drawing combat pay. In Vietnam, there
were 560,000 people in the theater and
only about 60,000 hunting and being
hunted by Charlie. The ratio was even
worse during Desert Storm.
Since the AFL foreign volunteers
would be paid less than half what serv¬
ing U.S. soldiers receive, Congress
could field from three to four region¬
ally oriented AFL divisions for less
than half the cost of a U.S. light divi¬
sion. Not only would America receive
more bang for the buck, but we would
have a better team on the field that
could understand the culture and speak
the language. In these types of opera¬
tions, the latter two factors — know¬
ing the people and being able to talk
to them — are more important than
the number of cannons the AFL would
deploy.
The force I envision would not be
an army like Oliver North’s rag-tag
Nicaraguan Contras, nor a cadre of
released criminals — such as the early
Spanish Foreign Legion — but a le¬
gitimate, highly disciplined outfit that
would come directly under the chair¬
man of the joint chiefs of staff, who
could further delegate AFL opcon with
the U.S. Special Operations Com¬
mand, who run worldwide Special
Forces, Rangers, SEAL and Air Com¬
mando operations.
Transients and ticket punchers —
largely responsible for our loss in Viet¬
nam because no one stayed around
long enough to learn the nature of the
war, and who exist in even bigger
numbers, from second lieutenant to
four-star general, in today’s armed
forces — would be banned. Except
for positions opened by casualties, all
officer positions would require a four-
year minimum tour.
Platoon, company, battalion and regi¬
mental COs would be frozen in their
jobs for a three-year period, after a one-
year initial tour as a trainer in each
division’s training depot. The officer and
initially the NCO cadre would come
from the USMC and Army (preferably
USMC Force Reconnaissance, Special
Forces and Ranger units) and be sec¬
onded to the AFL for a minimum of six
years. Within 10 years, the AFL would
be producing their own NCOs from
within, and after this, only officer re¬
placements would come from U.S. units.
Promotion By Those Who
Know
Promotion for NCOs and officers
would be made by the division CG
based on TO&E vacancy. There would
be no distant Pentagon boards to de¬
cide who would make 03 or E6 or
who would command a battalion or
regiment. Enlisted soldiers would
come from the area of the unit’s pri¬
mary interest (the Americas for West¬
ern Hemisphere units, Asia for Pa¬
cific units and Europe for the Atlantic
units). Recruits would be strong, bright
and motivated. Criminals need not
apply, but no petty questions would
be asked about backgrounds. The re¬
quirement should be that the volun¬
teer be made of warrior material.
U.S. troops man roadblock in Panama during Operation Just Cause. Could small,
forward-deployed legion units prove an effective deterrent to anticipated small-
war scenarios of the ’90s? Photo: DoD
52 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
When American citizens/interests were threatened in Grenada, Operation Urgent
Fury assembled force from all branches and many units, including these 82nd
Airborne troopers. An American Foreign Legion could readily handle such tasks.
Photo: SOF staff
The second division to be formed
should be built gradually along simi¬
lar lines as the Americas division, and
initially be based in the Middle East,
ideally in Kuwait (perhaps with total
Kuwaiti funding). This force would
be a heavier unit, trained in mid-level
conflict and equipped with “fire and
forget” anti-tank missiles (Milan and
Gallant) mounted in light armored and
four-wheel-drive vehicles. It would be
composed of volunteers from the
former Warsaw Pact, and its focus, at
least for the next decade, should be on
Iran and Iraq. This force would be
reinforced quickly by regular units
when the crap hits the fan. The Pa¬
cific Force would be based ideally on
Guam, where there are great training
areas and a good airfield, and would
train for low intensity conflicts in the
GIs arrive in Gulf to participate in eviction of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. Large-scale
operations may require bulk of U.S. assets and attention — but an American
Foreign Legion could serve to quell small problems in small (and unpopular)
conflicts. Photo: DoD
Values and morals would be
pounded into them and shaped by their
NCOs, much as mine were as a 15-
year-old lad in Italy. Again, the French
Foreign Legion recruit depot and train¬
ing system should serve as a model.
With present down-sizing, there are
more than enough great, highly moti¬
vated NCOs and officers who have
gotten pink slips from our Army and
Marine Corps, They have the right
stuff to cadre the AFL. Age restric¬
tions and petty past troubles would
not apply. Physical and mental com¬
petence and experience would be the
criteria. Tve know too many 50-year-
old studs with years of great war-fight¬
ing experience, who could walk, climb
and fight younger men into the ground:
The cadre should be made up of such
centurions.
The mission or objective of the
AFL would be to provide, at a low
cost with minimum political compli¬
cations, a fighting force of hard-hit¬
ting warriors to handle low intensity
conflict/peacekeeping/humanitarian/
anti-drug operations. Because of na¬
tional security considerations, which
include anti-drug operations, the first
unit to be organized would be the
Americas force. It should be built on
the crawl-to-walk-to-run principle.
First a battalion, then a regiment and
then three infantry regiments with di¬
vision headquarters and a light logis¬
tical tail.
The Americas force could be based
in Puerto Rico and composed prima¬
rily of Spanish-speaking soldiers and
cadre. English would be the command
language as French is in the legion.
Enlistment would be for six years, af¬
ter which the AFL soldier could, if
service was exemplary and he was pro¬
ficient in English, be eligible for U.S.
citizenship. As an incentive at this
time, the AFL warrior could transfer
to the U.S. regular Army or USMC
After one tour, NCOs and officers
would be allowed to transfer back to
the regular forces or extend in the
AFL. As a carrot, for every six years
with AFL, the cadre would receive
eight year’s retirement credit. Artil¬
lery, medical, engineering, logistical
and helicopter support would be pro¬
vided both at base camp and during
operations by guard and reserve units
on tours of extended active duty. Tac
air and airlift would be provided as
needed. FACs (forward air control¬
lers) and ALOs (air liaison officers)
would come from the supporting
USAF/USMC units.
Pacific Rim region. Its volunteers
would come from all over Asia.
Each regionally oriented force
would serve as a multipurpose strike
force: LIC, peacekeeping and humani¬
tarian missions. These forces would
never serve as a unit in the United
States. However, its cadre and in-
house promoted NCOs should attend
U.S. service schools, as well as the
best of foreign schools (Israelis for
armor/Australians for jungle warfare,
et cetera).
And Train Like They'll Fight
Training would be hands-on in the
field with maximum live-fire exer¬
cises. Battle drill would be just that.
They would not follow the Army ex¬
ample of computer games or every¬
one lining up behind sandbags and
firing at targets with more controllers
Continued on page 83
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 53
Ill 1983 Jeff Cooper defined the “gen¬
eral purpose rifle” as "... a conveniently portable, individu¬
ally operated firearm, capable of striking a single decisive
blow, on a live target of up to 200 kilos in weight, at any
distance at which the operator can shoot with the precision
necessary to place a shot in a vital area of the target.”
The envelope was prescribed by Cooper with a maxi¬
mum length of one meter (39.37 inches) and a total weight,
empty, no greater than three kilograms (approximately 6.6
pounds).
The rifle resulting from these parameters was to be
convenient, powerful (whatever that means), accurate, rug¬
ged, versatile and aesthetically pleasing. This concept has
come to be known as the “Scout Rifle,” and in little more
than a decade Gunsite Training Center Inc. (Dept. SOF,
P.O. Box 700, Paulden, AZ 86334; phone: 602-636-4565,
fax: 602-636-1236) has succeeded in meeting, and in some
instances exceeding, all of the original design criteria.
There have been numerous short, lightweight military
bolt-action rifles chambered for full-size cartridges. The
British No. 5 Mkl “Jungle Carbine” is an example. There
were an almost infinite number of carbines based on the
’98 Mauser action and even earlier Mauser designs. Ex¬
amples include the Spanish and Argentine M91 Carbine,
Belgian M89 Lightened Carbine, Spanish M95 Carbine,
Swedish M94/14 Carbine, Argentine Model 1909 Cavalry
Carbine, FN Dutch Police Carbine, Iranian Models 98/29
and 49 Short Rifles, German Model 33/40 and so on. Most
of them exhibited an unacceptable flash signature and in¬
creased recoil.
None of these military carbines were fitted with optical
sights. This brings us to another important and unusual
attribute of the Gunsite Scout Rifle. It is equipped with a
barrel-mounted scope with an eye relief of about nine inches.
During World War II Germany fielded some K98k rifles
with the long-eye-relief ZF41 1.5X scope, which mounted
on a side rail machined into the rear sight base of specially
prepared rifles. It was not popular with the troops and
54 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
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many were simply discarded on the battlefield.
Nevertheless, Cooper argued the case for a low-pow¬
ered, long-eye-relief scope with great conviction. He was
convinced that it permitted the shooter to see both the
entire area in front of him as well as the cross hairs printed
on the target — as long as the scope’s magnification re¬
mained under “three’' power to prevent a great disparity
between the view perceived by each of the two eyes.
He also argued that it permitted low mounting. This is
important since a peep-aperture “ghost ring” rear emer¬
gency sight is another key ingredient in the scout rifle
concept. Keeping the scope’s line of sight as close as pos-
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sible to that of the iron sights is im¬
portant because it permits the
buttstock’s comb to provide a proper
cheek-weld with either sight.
This location for the scope also
permits stripper clip loading, if de¬
sired, and more important, facilitates
single-loading while the eyes remain
on the muzzle and target, with
the firearm in the outdoor ready
position.
Other salient features of the scout
rifle concept include a three-point
sling such as the CW or Ching (an
improved version of the CW), a short and thin-walled bar¬
rel, a synthetic stock and sometimes an integral retractable
bipod and butt magazine.
To date, all scout rifles have been built on turn-bolt,
short actions, and most have been chambered for the .308
Winchester cartridge. Some “pseudo” scouts have been
chambered for the .30-06 round using standard-length ac¬
tions like the pre-64 Winchester Model 70. Other cartridges
presumably compatible with the scout rifle concept include
the 7mm-’08, .350 Remington Magnum, .35 Whelan and
the 6.5mm Remington Magnum.
The first 10 Gunsite Scout Rifles were built within a six-
year period, with all work done at Gunsite. Scout
I was built on the now obsolete, but highly
sought after, Remington Model 600 action. Scout
II was built on a Sako action. Scout III was
fabricated using a Ruger 77 Ultralight rifle with
the quarter rib from a Ruger No. 1 single-shot.
Scouts IV through VIII employed Czech Brno
ZKK short actions and were all too heavy. Scout
X was built with a Winchester Model 70 short
action of current manufacture.
Finnish Action
In August of 1993 I enrolled as a student in
Gunsite No. 270, the General Rifle Course (see
“Gunsite Gauntlet” SOF Jan.’94). I purchased,
for this purpose, a Gunsite Scout Rifle as cur¬
rently produced at the Gunsite custom shop lo¬
cated on the ranch.
At this time Gunsite Scout Rifles incorpo¬
rate the superb Sako L-579 medium-length ac¬
tion, which will accommodate the .243 Win¬
chester, 7mm-’08, .308 Winchester and .358
Winchester cartridges. It is manufactured by
Oy Sako AB, Riihimaki, Finland.
Introduced in I960, the compact and light¬
weight L-579 has no peer and is synonymous with the
highest possible quality. It derived from the L-46 action
which was first imported to the United States in 1949. The
L-46 action, which has been described as a miniature ’98
Mauser, has a number of distinguishing features.
Machined with high precision, the one-piece bolt has
dual-opposed locking lugs at the front end. These lugs butt
against shoulders inside the receiver ring. The bottom lug
is solid, and the top lug is slotted to permit passage of the
ejector. The recessed bolt face encloses the entire rim of
the cartridge case except for a slot cut into the recess to
accept the extractor claw.
The bolt handle is integral with the bolt body with its base,
forming a collar around the rear end of the bolt. This collar
provides a wide surface for the cocking cam notch, forms a
cam to match the rear slope of the bridge and supply power for
primary extraction, and seals off the left locking lug raceway.
A guide-rib, as wide and thick as the bottom locking lug, is
held to the bolt body by a spring-steel collar. It prevents the
bottom locking lug from hanging up on the receiver when the
bolt is operated and inhibits the bolt from binding during
manipulation if excessive pressure is applied to the bolt handle.
When the bolt is rotated into battery, this rib also seals the
bottom lug’s raceway opening.
There are two gas-escape vent holes. One is on the left
side of the receiver ring where the head of the bolt meets
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The lightweight and compact Gunsite Scout Rifle especially
shines in offhand snap shooting.
the end of the barrel. The other is located on the bolt body
in front of the firing pin’s shoulder.
The spring-loaded firing pin is flattened at the rear end
to match a hole in the bolt sleeve. This prevents the striker
from rotating. The cocking piece is attached to the rear end
of the striker on a single interrupted lug. The system cocks
upon opening the bolt.
The spring-loaded, one-piece ejector/bolt stop is retained
by and pivots on a pin in the bolt stop housing (attached to
the left side of the receiver at its rear end). Depressing a
serrated button on the bolt stop, which projects outside the
housing, permits the bolt to be withdrawn from the receiver.
Cock the Trigger
The L-579 action is fitted with the Sako No.4 trigger
mechanism with a built-in sliding side-tang safety and is
noted for the crisp release of its serrated steel trigger. The
safety cannot be engaged unless the trigger mechanism is
cocked. Slide the serrated button to the rear of the bolt
handle to lock both the sear and striker. When the safety is
engaged, the bolt
cannot be lifted.
Push it forward to
fire the rifle. Un¬
less otherwise
specified, Gunsite
Scout Rifle trigger
pull weights are
adjusted to 2.5
pounds.
The trigger
guard and hinged
magazine floor-
plate are steel in¬
vestment castings.
The non-detach-
able, staggered-column four-round magazine is a thin sheet-
metal stamping. This is reinforced at the Gunsite custom
shop on both the front and rear ends with one-eighth-inch
steel stock.
Gunsite Scout Rifles have an emergency rear sight, sil¬
ver-soldered and screwed to the receiver bridge. It consists
of a fully machined “ghost ring” peep aperture that is ad¬
justable for both windage and elevation zero. The low-
profile, snag-free, serrated front sight blade is silver-sol¬
dered to the front scope mount. It remains protected and
hidden by the scope itself. The sight radius is 12 inches. A
large-aperture ghost ring provides a shadow-like effect
around the front sight blade, with extremely fast sight align¬
ment at close ranges, without compromising the require¬
ment for precision sighting at longer ranges.
The barrel on my personal caliber .308 Winchester
Gunsite Scout Rifle is made of chrome-moly steel and cut-
rifled with six grooves and a right-hand twist of one turn in
12 inches, which is standard for this cartridge. It started out
with a length of 20 inches. Attempting to zero this rifle
before the Gunsite No. 270 General Rifle Course resulted
in a great deal of frustration because the group dispersion
continued to increase with every group fired, no matter
who was behind the wheel.
Richard Jee, CEO and president of Gunsite Training
Center Inc., suggested we cut back on the barrel length.
An assemblage of early Scout Rifles, including (top to
bottom): Scout VI, built on a Czech ZKK 601 short action in
.308 Winchester; Scout X, built with a Winchester Model 70
short action of current manufacture and chambered for the
.308 Winchester round; and Super Scout I with a Remington
660 action chambered for the .350 Remington Magnum
cartridge.
This was done immediately and after recrowning, the rifle
started shooting consistent 0.5 MOA groups with Federal
308M ammunition (which uses the superb Sierra Matchking
168-grain BTHP bullet). Few custom sniper or match rifles
will shoot this well, and almost all have significantly longer
tubes. Apparently, changing the barrel length altered the
barrel’s harmonics in a positive manner. This also reduced
the rifle’s overall length to 38.25 inches, well under the
magic one-meter maximum. No, this rifle is not for sale.
The scope mounts on all Gunsite Scout Rifles are now
machined from stock at the Gunsite custom shop and are
an integral part of the barrel. This provides the maxi¬
mum possible
rigidity for the
optical sight and
insures that zero
will be maintained
under the most
adverse field con¬
ditions.
A Burris 2.75X
fixed power scope
is mounted on
Gunsite Scout
Rifles, principally
because, at this
time, no other op¬
tical sight is avail¬
able with the nine
Burris 2.75X fixed power, long-eye-relief
scope with standard duplex reticle
pattern is attached to the Gunsite
Scout Rifle by integral barrel scope
mounts and Warne in-line rings.
Gunsite custom-shop gunsmith file¬
finishing the integral barrel scope
mounts on the barreled action of a
soon-to-be Scout. Photo: courtesy
Chris Mayer
56 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
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GUNSITE SCOUT RIFLE SPECIFICATIONS
Caliber: .308 Winchester (7.62x51 mm NATO).
Operation:..... Bolt-action. Modified Finnish Sako L-579 action with
sliding side-tang safety. Cocks upon opening the bolt.
Weight, empty
with scope
and sling:...7 pounds.
Length,
overall: .......... 38.25 inches.
Barrel:..Chrome-moly steel with a cut-rifled six-groove bore and
right-hand twist of one turn In 12 inches.
Barrel length: .20 inches or less.
Feed
mechanism: ... Non^detachable/staggered-column, four-round magazine
with hinged floorplate, -
Sights: Burris 2.75X fixed power long-eye-relief
scope with duplex reticle pattern,
Interfaced to integral barrel mounts with j
Warne in-line, dovetailed low rings. I
Emergency iron sights: "ghost ring" peep
aperture rear sight adjustable for both jN[
windage and elevation zero; low-profile, B
snag-free, serrated front sight blade is m I
silver-soldered to the front scope mount.
Stock:.Brown Precision Fibergtas stock. Action
fully bedded, top and bottom, with epoxy
and reinforced by granular steel. Barrel is |||
bedded up to its shoulder and wide-
channel free-floated for the remainder of
the stock's length. Black or gray industrial I
epoxy paint finish. Optional woodland or mgm
grassland/desert camou-flage patterns A
available. Pachmayr Decel-erator buttpad 1
is optional.
Finish:.. Black oxide on all exterior metal surfaces.
Price: $1,995, complete with Burris scope and
Galco Ching sling. Unconditional lifetime m
warranty.
Manufacturer: Gunsite Training Center Inc., Dept, SOF, '
P.O. Box 700, Paulden, AZ 86334; phone: |||t%
602-636-4565, fax: 602-636-1236.
Emergency rear sight consists of a
fully machined “ghost ring” peep
aperture that is adjustable for both
windage and elevation zero.
summary:...Finest medium-game rifle available.
Glass-smooth action. Superb accuracy out
to 400 yards. Long-eye-relief scope
provides both fast target acquisition and
visual command of the tactical frontal
area. Lightweight and compact. Highly
recommended.
to 10 inches of eye relief required. Long-eye-relief pistol
scopes have too much magnification and eye relief of 14
inches and more.
The Burris Scout scope has a standard duplex reticle
pattern (thin cross hairs in the center stepped to thick bars
on the four comers). This will more than do for most
applications. In fact, if the rifle is zeroed for 200 yards,
when engaging targets at 400 yards the shooter needs only
to place the top of the wide bottom vertical bar on the
target. The scope comes equipped with lens caps; however,
I prefer the excellent Butler Creek type. Warne in-line,
dovetailed low rings are used to interface the Burris scope
with the integral barrel mounts.
All of this is fitted into a Brown Precision Fiberglas
stock, which features foam filling in the butt end only. The
action is fully bedded, top and bottom, with epoxy and
reinforced with granular steel. The barrel is bedded up to
W its shoulder and wide¬
ly channel free-floated for
t the remainder of the
stock’s length. Standard
JUf \ finishes — using an in-
II 4 dustrial epoxy paint —
m for the Gunsite Scout
||K JpPi I stock are either gray
or black. Optional fin-
J ishes at additional cost
/ include woodland cam-
JIp* , \ / ouflage or grassland/
| / desert camouflage. All
I f \ / have a rough, pebble-
/ grain texture that pro-
' L | vides a firm, non-slip
7\ surface.
An important option
j that I requested was
l the excellent one-inch
Pachmayr Decelerator pad,
g m which was rounded to pro-
^ vide a snag-free shoulder
>^1 1 mount. It makes a notice-
L v able difference in per¬
il*, ceived recoil, especially
L % when fired 500 to 600
: ipsL rounds over the course of
j \y a week, as we did in the
Gunsite No. 270. With this
pad installed, the length of
-- pull was the 13,5 inches
Gunsite Scout Rifle, that I had specified,
complete with Burris 2.75X The th ree (required for
scope and Ching sling. .
K a a either a CW or Ching
sling) Pachmayr quick-detachable sling swivels are flush
mounted. The Ching sling, designed by Eric Ching, an
instructor at Gunsite, is a decided improvement over the
CW sling since it does not require the rear end of the sling
to be unhooked from the rear swivel and reattached to the
middle swivel when changing from a carrying to shooting
mode. It is available in either nylon or leather and is manu¬
factured by both Galco (Dept. SOF, 2019 W. Quail Ave.,
Phoenix, AZ 85027; phone: 602-258-8295, fax: 602-
582-6854) and Bruce Nelson Combat Leather (Dept. SOF,
P.O. Box 8691 CRB, Tucson, AZ 85738; phone: 602-
825-9047).
Conf/riuec/ on page 69
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 57
As far as Third Mate Burton Coombes
was concerned, 12 May 1975 looked like another unevent¬
ful day on the container ship SS Mayaguez. He stood the
1200-1600 watch that Monday as the ship neared Poulo
Wai Island, some 60 miles southwest of the Cambodian
port of Kompong Som.
The World War II-era merchant vessel was traversing
the Gulf of Thailand, four days out of Hong Kong with a
load of varied commercial cargo en route to Sattahip, Thai¬
land. At 1418 Coombes stepped out on the bridge’s star¬
board wing. It was time to take another bearing.
“I spotted a flash of light coming around the island,”
Coombes said. “It was moving too fast for a fishing boat,
so I grabbed my binoculars — I could tell it was a gunboat.
She had a large red flag on her wheelhouse and was head¬
ing straight for us. I picked up the phone and called the
captain.”
Captain Charles Miller detested paperwork and particu¬
larly hated being disturbed while doing it. But the 62-year-
old skipper knew his third mate wouldn’t call unless it was
important, so he answered the cabin phone immediately.
“There’s a gunboat closing with us at high speed,” Coombes
relayed.
Halting his work, Miller headed for the bridge, briefly
stopping at a navigation table to check his ship’s position.
The Mayaguez was clear of any territorial waters. Binocu¬
lars in hand, the captain reached the bridge to spot the
oncoming vessel. “She was making at least 20 knots,”
Miller recalled. “She had a machine gun on her wheel-
house and it was manned.” Just then tracer fire began
whipping across the bow,
“Maneuvering speed! Give me maneuvering speed!”
Miller shouted. Coombes was already on the engine room
telephone relaying the command.
When the gunboat first opened fire, Miller had considered
ignoring it. Most of his 40-man crew were below deck and
a machine gun
couldn’t do much
against a C-2 vessel
as heavy as the
Mayaguez . But then
he recognized rocket
launchers on the
attacker’s deck — a
different story.
As if to punctu¬
ate the discovery, a
rocket whizzed
over the bow, graz¬
ing her containers,
and exploding
nearby in the water;
Miller instantly
moved to save his
crew. Entering the
wheelhouse, he or¬
dered the engines
brought to idle — a
missile fired over
the bow meant stop
or be sunk.
Now the attack¬
ers began omi-
Above: Marine boarding party recaptures U.S. merchant ship SS Mayaguez seized by Cambodians
three days earlier. Bv this time the pirates were qone and the ship’s crew taken to carts unknown.
Top: Despite spotting heavily armed Cambodians on Mayaguez deck fust minutes before Air Force
tear-gas drop, assault party found the ship deserted.
58 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
nously circling the ship as a second
gunboat appeared and advanced.
Miller identified them as Cambodian
naval vessels of U.S. manufacture (just
weeks earlier, Cambodia had fallen to
the communist Khmer Rouge). A
boarding party of eight men armed
with AK-47 rifles stood on the first
boat’s deck. As it came alongside the
Mayaguez , the group raced up an ex¬
terior ladder onto her deck.
As one Cambodian walked point
onto the bridge, the captain noted his
AK and U.S. Army PRC-77 radio.
Other men followed to fan out across
the bridge with weapons leveled. Then
four of them moved into the wheel-
house where Miller stood.
For a moment everyone stared at
each other. Then Miller inquired just
what the hell the intruders were doing
on his ship. “I also asked if anyone
spoke English,” he said. “No one an¬
swered, so I asked if anyone spoke
French, but I got the same response.”
One Cambodian pointed at the
wheelhouse chart table, locating Poulo
Wai. Picking up a pencil, he drew a
small anchor behind the island’s inner
atoll and asked Miller in perfect En¬
glish if the chart indicated depth in
fathoms or meters. “I told him it was
in meters,” the captain recalled. “It
was really in fathoms, but I wanted
him to think it was in meters. That
would give us an excuse to anchor
farther offshore.”
One of the gunboats pulled ahead
of the Mayaguez. The Cambodian
K.O. Khmer Pirates
American Quick Reaction Force
Saves SS Mayaguez
by Richard Harris Photos courtesy DoD
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 59
Agrial view of destroyer USS Haro! d Hoft a Fong side Mayaguez during reoa
op. After securing deserted mo reliant Ehtp,Mfracftdtoasatsl embattled
Marines on Koh Tana.
fire, leathernecks of Battalion Land in q Team, 2nd Battalion
Sth Marines, assault Koh Tang Island, where U-S, intelligence believed M&vA&uez
crew was held prisoner — 14 Americans were killed, most choppers shot out of
commission.
spokesman ordered Miller to follow it
toward Poulo Wai. As the huge ship
slowly got underway, the Cambodians
herded her crew on deck. But Third
Mate David English slipped away.
“I went to the bridge and saw the
captain talking to a Cambodian,” re¬
called English, a burly Marine Corps
vet who served in Vietnam. “I saw a
soldier with a radio. That made me
wonder if our radioman had gotten
off a distress signal. No one saw me,
so I backed off the bridge and went to
the radio shack.”
He found the Mayaguez radioman
sitting before a microphone and shak¬
ing with fear. “I asked if he had sent
an SOS and he told me he had,” En¬
glish said. He checked the log to make
sure — the page was blank. Shoving
the other man aside, English grabbed
the microphone, shouting, “Mayday!
Mayday !” — an Australian ship heard
his distress signal and responded in
less than a minute.
English informed the Australian
radioman of their being boarded by
armed Cambodians and forced to an
unknown port. Moments later the
third mate heard the Aussie rebroad¬
cast his SOS, giving the ship’s cor¬
rect position. “I didn’t want him to
sign off,” he recalled. “I was so
afraid he was going to be the last
English voice I was going to hear
for a long time. I put my head down
and prayed someone heard him.”
Lucky for the crew, the signal was
picked up by John Neal of Delta Ex¬
ploration Co. in Jakarta, Indonesia,
who called the U.S. Embassy. Over
several hours, English’s desperate
alarm was repeatedly relayed to Wash¬
ington, D.C., where it traveled the bu¬
reaucratic maze of the U.S. State De¬
partment before ending up in the
White House Situation Room.
As the Mayaguez takeover dragged
into late afternoon, it was early morn¬
ing of 12 May in Washington. The
job of reconning the merchant ship
was given to the Philippine Air Patrol
Group at Cubi Point Naval Air Sta¬
tion, part of the massive Subic Bay
complex on the South China Sea.
There several P-3 Orion antisubma¬
rine reconnaissance planes took off
for the Gulf of Thailand.
Lieutenant Colonel Randall Aus¬
tin, the Marine commander of Battal¬
ion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 9th
Marines was ordered to ready troops
for a rescue mission. Stationed at
Camp Shaw on Okinawa, BLT 2/9
were the closest suitable U.S. troops
for responding to the crisis.
Reconning Pirates
Night fell on the first day: Just be¬
fore 2230, radar on a P-3 flying near
Poulo Wai detected three motionless
vessels — two smaller boats and one
large ship. The recon plane’s 12-man
aircrew watched orange tracers fire in
their direction from the smaller ves¬
sels — .50-caliber antiaircraft rounds
arcing and falling to earth as the P-3
flew above range.
The aircrew dropped parachute il¬
lumination flares revealing the large
ship’s black hull, white superstructure
and steel cargo containers on deck.
There could be no mistake: She was
the Mayaguez , anchored and guarded
by two Cambodian gunboats.
Around 0900 the next day, the En¬
glish-speaking Cambodian told Miller
all three vessels would head northeast
for Kompong Som. Slowly the cargo
ship pushed off toward the mainland,
only to be swiftly redirected.
“We had been underway about 15
minutes when the [Cambodian] sol¬
diers on the bridge started squawking
and huddling around their guy with
60 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
the radio,” Miller said. “The English-
speaking officer ran over and told me
they were taking us to Koh Tang Is¬
land [some 35 miles southwest of
Cambodia]. This was the best news I
had received since we were captured.
I was afraid once they got us on the
mainland, no one would ever be able
to find us.”
The ship dropped anchor about one
mile north of Koh Tang. Soon its crew
got another morale booster. Without
warning, six U.S. Air Force F-4 Phan¬
tom fighters swooped down, dropping
bombs around the three vessels. Huge
plumes of water shot up off the
Mayaguez bow and stern. “The Cam¬
bodians started running around like a
bunch of chickens with their heads
cut off,” Coombes recalled.
A fishing boat approached and
pulled alongside the Mayaguez. The
Americans were transferred onto it as
darkness fell. Taken ashore to Koh
Tang Island, the crew still faced an
unknown fate. But just an hour later,
the English-speaking Cambodian told
Miller his crew would return to their
ship the next morning. Now the cap¬
tives were moved offshore to a larger
fishing boat for the night.
miles SOUTH CHINA SEA
Just weeks after Cambodia fell to the
communists, Khmer Rouge pirates
chose to test America’s resolve. They
lost this gamble.
Cambodian guards started kicking
the men awake just before 0800 on
Wednesday, 14 May, as the fishing
boat weighed anchor and headed out
to sea. A whole new set of guards
were on board, none speaking English.
Miller could only hope they were re¬
turning to their ship.
The morning calm was shattered
by six F-4s zooming overhead. The
fighters split up with one pair banking
over the horizon. An uneasy silence
settled on the waters — then came a
muffled explosion and a puff of black
smoke appeared in the distance. This
could only mean a gunboat had been
sunk by an F-4.
Someone shouted: “Here they
come!” — A pair of F-4s roared by on
the fishing boat’s port side. Two huge
columns of water erupted near the
bow. The planes swung around to
make another pass, bearing down to
attack the boat’s stern. “They came
over at about 50 feet. I saw little car¬
tridges drop from their wings but
couldn’t figure out what in the hell
they were,” English said.
Inches above the water, the car¬
tridges burst. A suffocating white
cloud engulfed the fishing boat. It was
CS gas; all aboard fought for breath.
Many fishing craft were on the gulf
that morning, and the stunned captors
moved to lose themselves among the
other boats. Yet the F-4 and P-3 crews
all reported seeing their target return
to Koh Tang — a mistake. The pris¬
oners were now headed for Kompong
Som, a threatening destination.
Dodging A Lynch Mob
Miller was worried; a gunboat had
been sunk, Cambodians were dead and
an angry mob waited at the Kompong
Som dock where the fishing boat even¬
tually tied up. This threat faded, how¬
ever, as 12 more Cambodian guards
shoved their way through the crowd
to jump aboard. Just as quickly, the
boat once more weighed anchor to
head westward from the harbor. Thirty
minutes later it slipped into a small
cove nestled in thick jungle on the
island of Koh Rong Sam Lem, some
15 miles into the gulf.
The Mayaguez crewmen were led
off the boat and down a bamboo walk¬
way into a large building, where the
English-speaking Cambodian officer
reappeared. He directed Miller into a
big room with a dirt floor, ordering
the captain to sit at a table before an
interrogation team. “I was shaking in
my shoes,” Miller said. “All I could
think about was them shooting my
crew, one man at a time, every time I
gave them an answer they didn’t like.”
The grilling lasted an hour, with
the questions ever more ridiculous as
it proceeded. Air strikes frightened the
Cambodians, so they asked Miller if
he could radio the U.S. planes from
his ship. “I told him we could, but
first we had to get the plant going
again,” the captain said. “They wanted
to know how many men I would need.
I told them at least nine.”
After a brief radio conference with
superiors, the Cambodian spokesman
responded that all could go in the
morning. Miller was pleasantly sur¬
prised, but still confused: “I didn’t
know if he meant the whole crew or if
I could only take nine men.”
Continued on page 75
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SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 61
Ur. Alan A, Stone may never again be asked to
serve as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Justice
(DOJ). But as more facts trickle out about FBI conduct
during the 51-day standoff near Waco, Texas, such a rejec¬
tion might be to Stone’s eminent credit. Stone, one of 10
unpaid experts empaneled to weigh the wisdom of DOJ’s
decisions in the case, quickly hit a stone wall: the never-
admit-mistakes mindset of most federal bureaucrats.
When the DOJ’s panel of experts met for the first time
with 10 FBI officials in early July 1993, “we asked them to
tell us what they thought they’d done wrong,” Stone told
Soldier Of Fortune. “They went around the table, one by
one, and said they didn’t think they’d done anything wrong.”
Stone eventually disagreed. He decided not to submit his
evaluation until he read the official reports on Waco prepared
by the DOJ and the Department of the Treasury. He conducted
telephone interviews with FBI agents and DOJ officials in¬
volved, including Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Jeffrey
Jamar, the FBI’s overall site commander in Waco who, as
Stone noted, “impressed me as such a decent man.”
Although Stone does not accuse the feds of intentional
wrongdoing at the Branch Davidian complex, his ultimate
conclusions prompted an unusually testy two-page denial from
the FBI, which declared Stone’s independent investigation
“went awry.” Stone is the first of the government’s own ex¬
perts to say unequivocally that the feds deserve some blame
for the fire at Mount Carmel that killed at least 75 people —
one-third of them children — on 19 April 1993.
His findings are particularly authoritative. Stone, a law¬
yer, physician and psychiatrist, is a nationally recognized
expert on violence. He sits on the faculties of both the
“Arsenal of assorted assault weapons and parts” is cited in
photo caption for this “arms bunker” photo from Treasury
report — apt shelter from encircling fire. Forensic dentist Dr.
Rodney Crow says children were killed here from falling
concrete, not execution.
medical and law
schools at Harvard
University. It was
Stone’s colleague
at Harvard’s law
school, Deputy At¬
torney General
Philip B. Heymann,
who assembled
the DOJ’s investi
gatory panel.
Neither the
DOJ evaluation of
the Waco disaster,
headed by Edward
Dennis Jr. (a
Heymann protege
and former deputy
attorney general),
nor Dennis’ per¬
sonal report “pro¬
vided a clear and
probing account of
the FBI tactics dur¬
ing the standoff,
and their possible
relationship to the
tragic outcome at Waco,” Stone wrote. “The FBI ... em¬
barked on a misguided and punishing law enforcement
strategy that contributed to the tragic ending ...
“No clear picture has emerged,” Stone concluded, “of
how and on what basis [Attorney General Janet Reno]
made her decision” to allow FBI agents to use tanks to
smash holes in the complex and spray CS, a debilitating
and sometimes fatal chemical warfare agent, inside it. Reno’s
decision ultimately allowed FBI tank drivers to begin vio¬
lently dismantling the building in a brash attempt to flush
out the Branch Davidians.
“It is difficult to understand why a person whose pri¬
mary concern was the safety of the children would agree to
the FBI’s plan,” Stone wrote, noting Reno “was ill-advised
and made an ill-advised decision. None of these matters
have been clarified.”
“I am quite convinced by the evidence provided that
[Branch Davidian leader] David Koresh told some of his
inner circle to set the place on fire,” Stone told SOF. “There
is some quite convincing evidence of this, but I’m not at
liberty to discuss it.”
But his report concludes that Koresh’s suicide decision
was prompted, at least in part, by rash, flawed decisions of
the FBI.
Dr. Alan Stone, of Harvard’s
medical and law school faculties,
was first of government-empaneled
experts to conclude the feds
deserve some blame for the Waco
standoff s fiery end. His judgment
prompted FBI denial claiming
Stone’s independent study “went
awry.” Photo: courtesy A. Stone
62 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
“The sequence of decision-making ... indicates that the
FBI ... made it difficult for [Reno] to make any other
choice/’ Stone observed in his report. Reno “was not prop¬
erly informed of the risks to infants and small children
posed by CS gas ...
“If this had been a military operation, the Waco conclu¬
sion would have been a victory,” Stone wrote. “The enemy
was destroyed without a single loss of life for the FBI. This
situation, however, was not a military operation. The ques¬
tion is: Did a ‘military’ mentality overtake the FBI?”
Apparently so.
After he and other experts questioned the FBI’s assault
with tanks and the CS chemical agent, Stone noted that the
FBI “misled” panel members. Officials withheld from them
information written early in the standoff by the FBI’s be¬
havioral scientists, who proposed a reduction in the heavy
show of tactical force in favor of further conciliatory nego¬
tiation. The behavioral experts warned that intense pressure
might lend credence to Koresh’s apocalyptic prophecies
and thus strengthen his leadership — which could increase
the risk of a mass suicide.
When the FBI initially took over the crisis, the overall
strategy was based on two basic priorities: (1) insure safety
of the children, and (2) negotiate the peaceful surrender of
Koresh and the Branch Davidians.
In a 5 March 1993 memo, FBI agents Peter Smerick and
Mark Young emphasized that any good-cop/bad-cop strat¬
egy that coupled negotiations with increasing tactical pres¬
sure was inapplicable, that “ ... this strategy, if carried to
excess, could eventually be counterproductive and could
result in the loss of life.”
Smerick and Young also recommended that, “Since these
people fear law enforcement, offer them the opportunity of
surrendering to a neutral party of their choosing accompa¬
nied by appropriate law enforcement personnel.”
Instead of having this information available initially,
DOJ’s investigative panel was provided with a rewritten
evaluation that tagged Koresh as an ordinary criminal who
was a “con man” and whose followers were “dupes.” The
information first provided to Stone and other panelists im¬
plied a shortcoming by the FBFs behavioral scientists,
suggesting that a lack of knowledge about such “unconven¬
tional” groups as Koresh’s cult — an unorthodox offshoot
of Seventh-day Adventism — needs to be remedied. (In¬
deed, all of the DOJ’s suggestions for improvement are
linked to budget increases.)
Instead, Stone found an “excellent in-house behavioral
science capacity ... The FBI’s behavioral science experts
who were actually on the scene ... had an excellent under¬
standing of Koresh’s psychology and appreciated the group’s
intense religious convictions.”
Feds* Ineptitude At
Ranch Apocalypse
Cited By Experts
by James L. Pate
Stone eventually learned how Jamar and Richard M.
Rogers, then-commander of the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team
(HRT), rejected the profile originally submitted by the FBI’s
behavioral scientists and advised that the proposal should
be resubmitted in favor of steadily increasing tactical pres¬
sure. (Rogers, who oversaw the Waco and Randy Weaver
standoffs — both unqualified disasters resulting in the deaths
of innocent
women and chil¬
dren — was qui¬
etly replaced by
FBI agent Roger
A. Nisley in No¬
vember.)
“One might
think that the high¬
est priority after a
tragedy like Waco
would be for every-
one involved to
consider what went
wrong and what
they would now do
differently,” Stone
wrote. “I must con¬
fess that it has been
a frustrating and
disappointing expe¬
rience to discover
that the Justice
Department’s in¬
vestigation has pro-
Branch Davidian survivor Sheila
Martin peers through quarantine fence
at an infant s shoe amid wreaths and
flowers dedicated to those killed at
Mount Carmel. Her husband and four
children died here.
Photo: James L. Pate
duced so little in this regard.”
When Reno, Heymann, Dennis and other officials un¬
veiled the DOJ’s findings on the Waco standoff at an
8 October press conference, statements made and informa¬
tion released implied that some of the Branch Davidian
children were savagely stabbed and bludgeoned to death by
their parents. (Some children, in fact, died of gunshot
wounds.)
Dr. Rodney Crow, a forensic dentist with the Tarrant
County Medical Examiner’s Office in Fort Worth, headed
a team of 50 dentists who helped identify the Branch
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 63
Treasury report photo of hand grenade casings
recovered from ruins of Mount Carmel. Initial botched
ATF raid stemmed from bureau’s effort to arrest
Koresh for allegedly manufacturing grenades and
converting semiauto rifles into machine guns.
Davidians’ remains. Crow entered Mount Carmel’s ruins
when the fire was still smoking, noting how “you could
shuffle your feet around [and] ... reignite flames.”
Some of the key findings from Crow’s team — findings
which indicate many, if not most, of the Branch Davidians
caught in the fire did not want to die and, in fact, tried to
survive — were not included in the DOJ’s report.
In a 9 November interview taped in Waco for The Maury
Povich Show , Crow said his findings had been “twisted.”
For instance, DOJ neglected to mention in its report that
forensic evidence recovered by Crow and other experts
indicates 32 men, women and children who crowded into
one small area “had blankets over their heads,” suggesting
they were trying to survive the fire.
Crow also suggested that the gunshot fatalities among
the children might better be characterized as resulting from
a mercy instinct rather than suicide: “If I was on fire, if my
child was on fire, if the heat was so unbearable — I’d shoot
my child. I would
hope to have the
strength to shoot
myself.”
Crow stressed
that DOJ and other
agencies he dealt
with in his investi¬
gation granted “full
independence ...
[and did] not
muzzle us in any
way.” But he noted
how the final dis¬
semination of in¬
formation left
something to be
desired.
“I don’t know
how it came across
in everyone else’s
newspapers, but in
our local Fort
Attorney General Janet Reno
facing media upon release of
Treasury Department’s Waco
report. Her actual reason for
approving the FBI’s violent armor-
chemical assault on Mount Carmel
remains unclear.
Photo: James L. Pate
Worth paper, on the front page, it said, ‘Cultist Children
Executed.’ It said facts released by the medical examiner’s
office show that many of the children ... were shot, stabbed
and beaten to death.”
Crow added that this news account “went on to say later
on, ‘It is apparent that the parents turned on their children
in favor of David Koresh’s teachings’ ... Our [findings
have] been twisted ... Nowhere did we say execution ...
What they referred to as ‘beaten to death’ was blunt-force
trauma. Three children had blunt-force trauma. But it was
from falling concrete in the bunker that fell on them ... ”
The “bunker” that Crow referred to was a concrete struc¬
ture in the middle of the Branch Davidian complex. Used
for walk-in, refrigerated food storage adjacent to the kitchen/
cafeteria, it also served as a foundation anchor for the four-
story tower that overlooked the surrounding area. Part of
the concrete structure’s interior had been converted by
Koresh to store scores of rifles and tens of thousands of
rounds of ammunition, prompting the FBI to label it “the
bunker.”
Even DOJ’s own report — widely labeled as a white¬
wash — confirms that the FBI never had but one planned
alternative to negotiation: Smash the place with tanks and
pump in a chemical warfare agent. This “emergency assault
plan” was decided on “during the first week of the stand¬
off,” the report states. “It was generally agreed [that the
plan would be used only] ... if an emergency response was
warranted ... ”
The forced-eviction plan approved by Reno stipulated
that the FBI would only spray CS into specific areas of the
building, gradually making more and more floor space
uninhabitable, at least in theory. But 19 April’s gale-force
winds dissipated the CS effects, while most or all the per¬
sons inside had gas masks; also, the large holes battered open
by tanks may have actually helped ventilate the structure.
“ ... The entire gassing operation may be viewed as a
failure,” arson investigators concluded in their report.
"Gas, Gas and Gas"
Among the provisos in the Reno-approved version of
the original assault plan: If cult members fired at the tanks,
HRT commander Rogers could then order the tanks to
spray CS throughout the structure. The operation was
planned for a 48-hour period — possibly longer.
When Reno called President Clinton on Sunday, 18 April,
to advise him she had approved the FBI’s assault plan for
the next day, “she emphasized that the operation was in¬
tended to proceed incrementally, and that it might take two
or three days before the Branch Davidians surrendered,”
the DOJ report states.
By the time this final solution was presented to Reno,
“the FBI had abandoned any serious effort to reach a nego¬
tiated solution and was well along in its strategy of all-out
tactical pressure, thereby leaving little choice,” Stone re¬
ported. “It is unclear ... whether [Reno] was told that FBI
negotiators believed they could get more people out of the
compound by negotiation. By the time [Reno] made her deci¬
sion, the noose was closed and, as one agent told me, the FBI
believed they had ‘three options — gas, gas and gas.’ ”
Under Rogers’ order, the first holes were knocked in
Mount Carmel’s wall and gas injected around 0600 hours
by two Combat Engineering Vehicles (CEVs), basically
M60 tanks reconfigured with CS sprayers and battering
64 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
rams. Designated CEV-1 and CEV-2, one was rigged for
first-floor demolition, the other for second-floor ramming.
Within four minutes, agents on the inside perimeter ra¬
dioed that the CEVs were drawing gunfire. “When the
Davidians started shooting, the scope and pace of the op¬
eration changed ...” the DOJ report acknowledges. By
0631, “the HRT reported that the entire building had been
gassed.”
By 0709, “the HRT reported that the Ferret rounds [tube-
launched CS projectiles fired from Bradley fighting ve¬
hicles] had been delivered through all the windows ... where
movements or gunfire were detected,” according to the
DOJ report. HRT members were using the CS supply so
quickly that the FBI’s command center in Washington,
D.C., sent out a bulletin at 0745, “canvassfing] all FBI field
offices to locate more Ferret rounds.”
By 0920, the FBI’s Houston field office had delivered
an additional 48 Ferret rounds to the scene. By 0930, CEV-
2 threw a track after an FBI driver got it stuck in mud. At
1000, Reno left her command post in Washington for a
scheduled luncheon appearance in Baltimore.
Her departure could not have come at a worse
time.
It was about this time, as Dennis noted near
the end of his personal assessment, that “an
apparent deviation from the approved plan be¬
gan” and violence against the building by the
armored vehicles escalated dramatically. And
this is where the frustrations of
FBI agents at the scene may
have become manifest.
The FBI knew it was stuck
in the middle of a monumental
screw-up that had been created by
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms (ATF). The gassing plan ob¬
viously was not working. CEV-2 was
out of commission. The HRT, which trains
for rapid, dynamic intervention, was locked into
a mind-numbing, prolonged siege. The cost of the
standoff was spiraling upward, while daily TV reports
had the same impact as media coverage of the Iran
hostage crisis, creating enormous pressure on the FBI to
take action.
CEV-2’s crew was ordered by Rogers to redeploy in a
backup vehicle, which did not have a CS sprayer but could
smash more holes in the building. “It was ordered to breach
the rear side of the building [out of the news media’s view]
to create escape openings near the gymnasium area,” the
DOJ report confirms. At 1130, “CEV-2 breached the back
side of the compound ... concentrating on the right corner
of the building, near the warehouse/gymnasium.
“ ... At 11:45 a.m., a wall on the right rear side of the
building collapsed as a result of substitute CEV-2’s breach¬
ing activity.”
Ordered to clear a path to the bunker, where the FBI
believed people had congregated, the substitute tank
plunged into the gymnasium, bulldozing its way through
the two-story-high structure the roof and walls caved in. A
fire immediately started in one corner of the rubble, as the
FBI’s airborne infrared video record indicates (see “Waco
Whitewash Continues,” SOF Feb. ’94). Some people ap¬
parently were trapped and others possibly were killed by
falling debris, government evidence indicates.
After viewing a video analysis prepared by the Califor¬
nia Organization for Public Safety, Stone told SOF “the
video suggests to me — plus what other people have told
me — that the tanks destroyed the gym area, where there
might have been people who got crushed to death. It may
be that the FBI, with the clumsiness with which they car¬
ried out this portion of the breaching operation, may have
accidentally ignited a fire. I know the tanks caused a lot
more damage than I had realized.”
Yet what happened up to this point on 19 April is de¬
scribed in the DOJ report as “measured steps ... While it
was conceivable that tanks and other armored vehicles could
be used to demolish the compound, the FBI considered that
such a plan would risk harming the children inside. The
presence of innocent children, and the FBI’s concern to
minimize the risk of harm to them, influenced all tactical
considerations.”
With the building literally collapsing around the Branch
Davidians’ ears, the so-called bunker, the only part of the
complex left standing after the fire, probably seemed like
a safe haven. But it became a tomb for 32 men, women
and children, including two pregnant females.
It was standing room only in the bunker, as
Crow observed. Evidence indicates everyone ap¬
parently held wet blankets over their
~^ ‘ eads. Some women cradled small
children in their arms. As the
smoke, toxic gases and heat be¬
gan to increase, some of those
standing began to collapse.
Burning timbers from above
came crashing through the
bunker ceiling, showering
those inside with large chunks
of jagged concrete.
Still, the bunker must have
seemed like a good place to go. In
all, 43 bodies were found in, around
and on top of it, according to the govern¬
ment. The wives of Koresh and his lieuten¬
ant Steve Schneider died of suffocation in¬
side, apparently covered by falling debris.
With them died Audrey Martinez, 13, along
with three other girls ranging in ages from 2
to 14, a 7-year-old boy, a 1-year-old too badly burned to
determine its sex, and Rosemary Morrison, 29 — all buried
alive before any fire reached them.
Two sisters, Jennifer and Katherine Andrade, aged 19
and 24 years respectively, died from inhaling toxic fumes,
as did 17 others in the bunker area. Four others nearby died
from blunt trauma. Rebecca Saipaia, 24, and a young man
were burned to death. Nine in this area died from gunshot
wounds, including 9-year-old Abigail Martinez and two
unidentified children, a 6-year-old girl and an infant. An
unidentified 2-year-old boy, specified in the DOJ report as
“Doe 33,” reportedly died of a stab wound to the left chest,
although Crow questioned whether this might not be a
“puncture” wound not necessarily caused by a knife.
In ratcheting up the aggressive tactical strategy, Stone
wrote, “the FBI’s critical assumption was that David Koresh
Continued on page 84
It was
standing
room only in
the bunker •••
everyone... held
wet blankets
over their heads
MARCH 94
SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 65
When the IieWS got out that Wyoming’s fa¬
mous cowboy lawyer, Gerry Spence, had offered to defend
white separatist Randy Weaver free of charge, “all hell
broke loose,” Spence related. His sister, whose husband is
black, “wrote me decrying my defense of this ‘racist.’ There
were letters to the editors of several papers that expressed
their disappointment that I would lend my services to a
person with Weaver’s beliefs.”
But the response which evoked the most feeling from
Spence came in a
personal letter
“imploring me to
withdraw” from
Weaver’s case,
sent by Alan
Hirschfeld, for¬
mer chairman
and CEO of Co¬
lumbia Pictures
Entertainment
Inc. and 20th Cen¬
tury Fox, the at¬
torney recalled.
Spence shares
these incidents
— and most of
Hirschfeld’s let¬
ter — in the
opening chapter
of his recently
published book,
From Freedom
to Slavery: The
Rebirth of Tyr¬
anny in America.
Spence’s in¬
volvement in the
Weaver case be¬
comes a literary
springboard
from which he
launches into ruminations on why George
Orwell’s chilling prophecies from 1984
are here and why most people can’t even
recognize it.
As one of the nation’s most success¬
ful criminal trial attorneys — notable
clients include Imelda Marcos and the
Karen Silkwood family — Spence has
written four other books. But none have
been as timely as this work — coming
on the heels of Weaver’s acquittal and
the federal government’s follow-up di¬
saster outside Waco, Texas. From Free¬
dom to Slavery is a provocative and semi¬
nal treatise interpreting the abstract and
literal examples of freedom in our soci¬
ety, contrasting with the subtle forms of
nonetheless effective tyranny.
Spence confronts the breakdown of
American democracy with bold facts that reveal how our
freedoms have been stolen by a corrupt political system
dominated by an amoral corporate oligarchy. The whole
stinking deal survives on the commonly held myth that
democracy is alive, he writes. The book reads by turns of
the page like conservative thought - and then liberal. He
expertly gigs organized religion, yet comes across as deeply
spiritual and religious. But his arguments are compelling,
even when you want to disagree.
The written exchange between Hirschfeld and Spence is
a glimpse into issues with which Spence deftly deals, chap¬
ter by chapter, with such subjects as “The Tyranny of
Justice, The Tyr¬
anny of Free¬
dom, The Tyr¬
anny of Fear ...
of Work... of the
Corporate Core
... of Poverty ...
of Maleness ...of
the Media.”
Hirschfeld
wrote Spence,
asking him to
withdraw from
the case “be¬
cause of the re¬
spectability and
credibility your
involvement im¬
parts to a cause
which I find des¬
picable ... The
Aryan Nation,
The Brother¬
hood, and the
Order [none to
which Weaver
belonged] are all
groups dedicated
to only one
premise — ha¬
tred of the unlike
by the like ...
They are societal malcontents and mis¬
fits who espouse nothing worthwhile ...
“This is not Huey Newton and the
Black Panthers fighting 200 years of
prejudice and second-class citizenship,”
Hirschfeld admonished Spence, “nor
even the PLO seeking a homeland by
terrorist methods. While I abhor terror¬
ism ... I do understand its politics. Not so
with the philosophy of the groups Mr.
Weaver stands for.”
Spence’s lengthy reply to Hirschfeld
sets the tone for the rest of the book. An
excerpt from that response:
“I met Randy Weaver in jail on the
evening of his surrender ... He was un¬
shaven and dirty... he was cold ... In the
stark setting of the prison conference
room he seemed diminutive and fragile.
He had spent 11 days and nights in a standoff against the
Continued on page 68
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LIBERTY
Continued from page 66
government, and he had lost. His wife
was dead. His son was dead. His friend
was near death ... He had lost his free¬
dom. He had lost it all.
“ ‘My name is Gerry Spence,* I
began. ‘I’m the lawyer you’ve been
told about. Before we begin to talk, I
want you to understand that I do not
share your political and religious be¬
liefs. Many of my dearest friends are
Jews. My daughter is married to a Jew
... I deplore what the Nazis stand for.
If I defend you, I will not defend your
political beliefs or your religious be¬
liefs, but your rights as an American
citizen to a fair trial.’ His quiet answer
was, ‘That is all I ask,’ ” Spence wrote.
Spence then goes on to explain why
he wanted to defend Weaver: “We
embrace the myth that we are still a
democracy when we know that we are
not a democracy, that we are not free,
that the government does not serve us
but subjugates us. Although we give
lip service to the notion of freedom,
we know the government is no longer
the servant of the people, but, at last,
has become the people’s master. We
have stood by like timid sheep while
the wolf killed — first the weak, then
the strays, then those on the outer
edges of the flock, until at last the
entire flock belonged to the wolf. We
did not care about the weak or about
the strays. They were not a part of the
flock. We did not care about those on
the outer edges. They had chosen to
be there. But as the wolf worked its
way toward the center of the flock we
discovered that we were now on the
outer edges. Now we must look the
wolf squarely in the eye. That we did
not do so when the first of us was
ripped and torn and eaten was the first
wrong. It was our wrong.”
Be forewarned, though. If you are
merely interested in the Randy Weaver
case, do not buy this book. It is about
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cry to freedom on the order of Tho¬
mas Paine’s Common Sense. Spence
attacks many conventional notions,
such as being politically correct:
“In exchange for acceptance by our
friends we give up the right to say
what we think. Being socially proper
is more important than possessing a
fresh, uncompromised soul. Being ac¬
ceptable to our neighbors is often more
important than being acceptable to our¬
selves. For nearly two hundred years
slavery thrived in America over the
silent protestations of decent citizens
enslaved themselves by the tyranny
of convention. The price of freedom
is often rejection, even banishment.”
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they return home in order to open the
same brand of beer, and to watch the
news on television that informs them
of the same murders and violence,
which are balanced against the same
insipid sitcoms evoking the same
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GUNSITE SCOUT
Continued from page 57
Some explanation of the CW sling
system is required. “CW” stands for
Carlos Widmann, a Guatemalan who,
about a decade ago, showed Jeff Coo¬
per his Steyr SSG rifle on which he
had added a third quick-detachable
sling swivel to the front end of the
magazine floorplate. When the rear
end of the sling is attached to the stock
at this point, it permits a “hasty” sling
support system that exerts positive
load on the upper arm in the manner
of a high-power competition sling.
Widmann called it “an old British
system.” I have been able to trace it
back to the Model 1879 bolt-action
rifle designed by James Paris Lee and
adopted by China and the U.S. Navy
in caliber 6mm Lee Navy. This rifle
was manufactured by Remington in
Ilion, New York and was the basis for
the British trials rifles. This was the
only rear sling mounting point on the
early Lee rifles and it was located on
the trigger guard just in front of the
magazine-well. This feature was re¬
tained on the early Lee-Metford rifles.
It appears on some variants of the
Short Magazine Lee-Enfield (SMLE)
as an extension of the front trigger
guard screw (for example: the
7.62x51mm L39A1 competition rifle).
This sling swivel position also appears
on the Canadian Ross rifle. Regard¬
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suffice. The long-eye-relief scope,
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over the roughest and steepest terrain.
Finally, and of no small consequence
to those of us who love fine firearms,
it is pleasing to the eye.
From heavy brush to high plains
there is no better medium-game rifle
than the Scout. Cooper made only one
mistake. He extended the Scout Rifle
concept into an area where it has no
legitimate modern applications — the
military. Cooper maintained that a
scout was a specially trained sol¬
dier whose normal duty was to work
alone, or with only one or two oth¬
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No army of my knowledge, and I
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even clandestine operations anymore.
They might have during World War I.
I don’t know about that, as it is well
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size units armed with an assortment
of weapons from infantry rifles to
belt-fed squad automatics and gre¬
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mission calls for one. Furthermore,
if, God forbid, I should ever again
find myself either behind or in front
of the enemy’s lines by myself, I
would want an M16 with an M203
40mm grenade launcher attached to
it, not a Scout Rifle. The Gunsite
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Others may say that they make
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POGUE WARRIOR
Continued from page 44
as told in Rogue Warrior is com¬
pletely wrong.
According to the book, as the battle
raged, Marcinko led a small team of
SEALs to clean out the enemy, house
by house. Suddenly the street was
raked by machine-gun fire and the
SEALs dove for cover. All except
Risher, who (according to Marcinko)
“took his Stoner and walked out into
the middle of the street, screaming and
firing. It was Dodge City, Vietnam,”
Marcinko claims that a Viet Cong
bullet put an end to the one-man
charge, then he tried to save Risher.
“I was there quick enough to catch
him ... I dragged Risher out of the
street ... The shot had gone through.
His brains were spilling into my hand.”
In reality, Marcinko played only a
peripheral role. Two SEALs who ac¬
tually did fight alongside Risher were
Francis F. Thornton (Marcinko never
mentions Thornton) and Harry
Humphries, both first-class petty of¬
ficers. Thornton had then been in¬
country for 13 months as an adviser
with the South Vietnamese navy’s
SEAL equivalent, the Lien Doan
NguoiNhai (LDNN, or Sea Comman¬
dos). Humphries was the explosives
expert in Marcinko’s 8th Platoon.
Both SEALs’ recollections differ
in almost every detail from Marcinko’s
account. According to Thornton, part
of the 8th Platoon, including Risher
and Humphries, drove a jeep to the
city center to help clean out the Viet
Cong’s movie-theater command post,
but the enemy was firmly entrenched.
After taking withering fire from the
theater, the SEALs brought up a 57mm
recoilless rifle. Firepower alone was
not enough, however, as the Viet Cong
held the high ground, so the SEALs
decided to hoist the weapon onto a
nearby rooftop in order to gain the
upper hand.
Humphries remembered what en¬
sued with remarkable clarity: “The
three of us [Risher, Thornton and
Humphries] climbed up the building
from behind and looked for the best
field of fire. Ted [Risher] went over
the balcony first — I went last — the
enemy saw me.” Within seconds the
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up chips of concrete between
Humphries’ legs. He dove for cover.
Risher was not so lucky. “He stuck
his head up a little high and a round
got him,” Humphries said. “I believe
it was an Ml carbine round that, per¬
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comrade, but it was too late. Risher
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combat zone.
Thornton substantiated Humphries’
account. “Ted and I were trying to get
a recoilless rifle onto the roof,” he
recalled. Other platoon members sup¬
ported the effort from the ground.
“Risher leaned over to pull on the rope
and he was hit in the forehead.”
Marcinko’s portrayal of Risher’s
death is more than just false. It is also
a disservice to the dead man’s
memory. To read Marcinko’s retell¬
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Risher, but an act of stupidity.
Marcinko twisted the incident to make
it appear that he was, as usual, at the
center of the action doing all he could
to prevent the tragedy. From
Marcinko’s perspective, Risher’s death
was unfair — not because he died, but
because he deprived Marcinko of a
perfect record.
Where was Marcinko during the
battle? At the Tactical Operations Cen¬
ter (TOC), about a mile away. The
SEALs had set up shop at the “em¬
bassy house,” a CIA compound com¬
prising the PRU headquarters as well
as intelligence and interrogation cen¬
ters. Marcinko was there when Risher
was killed and he was there when they
brought in the body. The closest he
came to the battle was in talking to his
SEALs by radio.
Ironically, the TOC was exactly
where Marcinko should have been. In
most cases a platoon leader should be
leading his men from the front, but
during the disorganized combat in
Chau Doc it made more sense for
Marcinko to monitor his SEALs from
a central point behind friendly lines.
And, by all accounts, Marcinko per¬
formed well in this role. According to
Thornton, “Dick ran the whole show
from the TOC.”
Humphries also believes Marcinko
was better placed in the TOC than on
the battlefield: “We had orders from
the senior American province adviser
to stay in the compound. Marcinko
ignored that and sent us out in the
city. If he had obeyed orders, we
would not have been able to help de¬
fend the city.” In addition to attacking
the local Viet Cong headquarters, 8th
Platoon’s SEALs also rescued a hand¬
ful of U.S. civilians and foreign na¬
tionals from certain capture or death,
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Marcinko not been running the show
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what really happened, but he stood by
his former commander. “Dick had the
balls to stand up to guys who wanted
to run standard ops,” he said. “He
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be used.”
After the Tet Offensive, Marcinko
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Continued from page 47
it to the ATF agent, who “didn’t
seemed concerned or interested,”
Condon said. “We made a copy and
he put it in a pile with a bunch of
other paperwork.” Fischer returned to
the counter from his workshop and
spotted a composite sketch of the CIA
shooting suspect that the ATF agent had
brought in and laid aside. Fischer picked
it up and looked at it more closely.
“The face immediately struck me
as familiar,” Fischer told SOF. “The
more I looked at it, the more familiar
it seemed. I knew it was Kansi. I told
the agent, This looks exactly like the
guy whose file we just gave you.’ It
kind of made me a little miffed that this
agent didn’t seemed to take it that seri¬
ously. He didn’t seemed interested —
acted like he was more involved with
what he was sent to be looking for.”
“Dave told that ATF agent three
or four times that [Kansi] was the guy
he was looking for,” Britton Condon
recalled. “But the agent was quite de¬
termined to find a file on Murray. But
Dave was persistent that [Kansi] was
the guy.”
The agent left about noon. David
Condon soon arrived. Britton Condon
74 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
and Fischer related what had happened
and how it was “just too much of a
coincidence, the same type of gun and
the close resemblance between the
sketch and Kansi,” as Britton Condon
recalled. “Dad said he would call Sher¬
iff Bittle.”
Bittle told SOF that when David
Condon called him at the Falls Church
City Sheriffs office, “I was kind of
shocked. It was the first time in the
seven years that I’d known him that
he'd ever called me. He was very con¬
cerned. He sells guns and he wants to
sell them to the proper people. He said
the information had been given to the
ATF agent and the agent had not seemed
interested. He wanted to make sure it
got the attention it deserved. He faxed
me a copy of the 4473. It sounded like
the agent had tunnel vision.”
Bittle called Detective Kevin
McCormack of the Falls Church Po¬
lice Department, who immediately for¬
warded the information to Detective
Mike Little of the Fairfax County Po¬
lice Department, who passed the in¬
formation on to the feds. Kansi, mean¬
while, flew out of National Airport
that Tuesday night on a flight to New
York City, where he made a connec¬
tion on a weekly Pakistan International
Airlines flight to Karachi, the
country’s largest city.
Two days later, on Thursday,
28 January, Kansi’s roommate, Zahed
Mir, reported Kansi missing. Then on
Saturday, Mir reported receiving what
sounded like a long-distance phone
call from Kansi, telling Mir he’d had
to leave town in a hurry, that someone
would come by to pick up his belong¬
ings and that he would not be returning.
After a cursory search of Kansi’s
room turned up an AK-47, Mir called
police. They came out on Monday —
a week after the shootings — and in¬
terviewed Mir, who consented to a
search of the apartment. The AK-47
was matched by ballistics to a bullet
recovered from the shootings. A spent
cartridge found at the murder scene
had a fingerprint that matched one of
those Kansi had been required to pro¬
vide on his immigration papers. In¬
side a suitcase belonging to Kansi, in¬
vestigators found the Makarov and
Beretta purchased from Bittle, along
with 550 rounds of ammunition for
the AK. They also found clothing that
matched a description provided by
eyewitnesses to the CIA murders.
On Tuesday — a week after Fischer
and Britton Condon had fingered Kansi
to the disinterested ATF agent — an
arrest warrant for Kansi was issued.
Patrick D. Hynes, who heads the
ATF’s Washington field office, issued
a “vigorous denial” of the accounts given
by Britton Condon, Fischer and Sheriff
Bittle. Hynes denied that ATF was in
any way responsible for Kansi’s escape,
and implied that Condon, Fischer and
Bittle were all liars.
Hynes, who refused to identify the
investigating ATT agent, said that agent
and another who subsequently stopped
by the gun store were never told any¬
thing about Kansi by anyone. After de¬
clining to make the pair available for
interviews, he told The Washington Post
that the two agents were willing to pro¬
vide sworn statements. After further con¬
sultation with the agents, though, he said
such legally binding documents were
“unnecessary.”
Referring to the first agent to visit
the gun store, Hynes said, “You’re talk¬
ing about a guy that’s a law enforce¬
ment officer for 11 years. This guy wants
to solve the case and wants to be a hero.
He would have followed it up.
“It’s not that he doesn’t recall”
Condon and Fischer identifying Kansi
as a suspect, Hynes added. “He says it
never happened.”
It’s academic — probably laugh¬
able — to Kansi. With a $1 million
reward put on his head by the FBI, he
remains at large in Asia.
USS MAYAGUEZ
Continued from page 61
At this point U.S. officials still be¬
lieved the crew was on Koh Tang Is¬
land. After being airlifted to Utapao
Air Base in Thailand, BLT 2/9 read¬
ied to launch its rescue. The operation
would kick off at dawn on 15 May
with a force of 227 Marines.
One group of leathernecks would
secure the Mayaguez , still anchored
off Koh Tang. The 48 Marines, six
Navy EOD personnel, one Army cap¬
tain who spoke Cambodian and six
civilians would transfer from CH-53
transport helicopters to the destroyer
USS Harold E. Holt. This vessel would
pull alongside the Mayaguez so the
Marines could recapture it. The EOD
men would search for booby traps and
the civilians would operate the ship
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once she was secure.
“At first we thought about landing
on top of the containers on the deck,
but no one could tell us how many
Cambodians were on the ship or what
kind of weapons they had,” recalled
Marine Capt. Walter Wood. His group
left Utapao shortly before 0230 on
15 May. As dawn broke, the three
choppers carrying the boarding party
rendezvoused with the Holt off Koh
Tang Island. Since the choppers were
too big to land on the destroyer’s small
helipad, the Marines descended rope
ladders to its deck.
Holt Commander Robert Peterson
recalled aiming his binoculars at the
cargo ship anchored dead in the wa¬
ter. He had noticed six heavily armed
Cambodians on the deck. “I chuckled
to myself, because in about 90 sec¬
onds those jerks were going to get one
hell of a surprise.”
As Peterson’s destroyer drew
within 500 meters of the objective,
Air Force jets swooped down, dous¬
ing the Mayaguez with tear gas. Ma¬
rines crouched along the Holt's rail
with protective masks on and weap¬
ons ready. “Let’s go Marines! Let’s
go!” Wood shouted as the two ships
touched — it was 0728.
Leathernecks swarmed over the
Holt's side. One group cautiously se¬
cured the bridge while others began a
methodical search of the ship. The six
armed Cambodians had disappeared,
perhaps swimming for the mainland.
“It was tough going,” Wood said.
“It was unbelievably hot on that old
tub. There was no power and it was
dark as hell below deck.” By 0830 the
Stars and Stripes waved above the
Mayaguez. The ship had been recov¬
ered without a shot. Koh Tang was
another story.
The assault on Koh Tang involved
179 Marines under Lt. Col. Austin’s
command. The objective: securing a
small piece of real estate about three
miles long and two miles wide. “Our
first element would consist of a rein¬
forced rifle platoon. They would land
on the western end of the island,” Aus¬
tin explained. “The other element con¬
sisted of two rifle platoons supported
by an 81mm [M29] mortar section.
They would land in the eastern zone.”
The sun rose on eight CH-53s ap¬
proaching Koh Tang. As the lead he¬
licopters neared their eastern landing
zone, they ran into a hail of antiair¬
craft fire. One went down just off¬
shore as another crashed on the beach.
A third chopper managed to drop its
Marines after taking fire, then crashed
into the gulf about a mile away.
“We had just been told to lock and
load,” said Larry Yerg, then a private
first class. “All of a sudden there was
an explosion and the chopper went
out of control. We hit the ground so
hard everyone was thrown into the
middle. I could smell smoke. Some¬
one started yelling, 'Get out! This son
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“We were in the middle of the
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choppers we came under fire. Man,
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behind. The only thing we could do
was to try and get out into the surf and
hope the Cambodians would forget
about us. I was standing in waist-deep
water when something slammed into
my left shoulder. Next thing I knew, I
was face-down in the water.” A corps-
man rescued Yerg, but 14 other Ameri¬
cans died in the assault — 10 Ma¬
rines, two Navy men, one airman and
another Marine KIA by a Cambodian
claymore mine. Added to the fatali¬
ties were numerous wounded.
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Things were going slightly better
on the island’s western end, where
U.S. helicopters came under heavy
fire, but none were shot down. How¬
ever, one chopper was hit and had to
abort; of the remaining three, only one
landed where it was supposed to.
“We were scattered across hell’s
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On the destroyer USS Henry B.
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out of consciousness. I heard some¬
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put the gig in the water. When I saw
that, I started crying like a baby.”
Oblivious to the firefights on the
island, a Cambodian gunboat was es¬
corting the Mayaguez crew’s fishing
boat to Koh Tang. “We had been un¬
derway about an hour when the gun¬
boat signaled for us to stop.” Miller
said. “The English-speaking officer
hopped on our boat and ran to the
wheelhouse, then he came to where I
was standing. Without any explana¬
tion, he held out his hand and told me
goodbye, then hopped back on the
gunboat and hauled ass back to
Kompong Som.”
Earlier that morning Miller had or¬
dered his crew to tie their white T-
shirts to long bamboo poles. Should
their fishing boat be pounced on by
U.S. planes, Miller wanted banners a
blind man could see. Just before 0900,
the crew spotted their ship off Koh
Tang. Then they heard the planes —
“I told every man to start waving those
flags,” Miller said.
Having retrieved the unlucky Ma¬
rines from the gulf, the Wilson was
also headed toward the Mayaguez.
“We were listening to a patrol plane
report that it had spotted some kind
of boat heading toward the ship,”
Rodgers said. “I knew we would be
getting orders to intercept, so I
turned in that direction. We had our
fire control radars locked on the tar¬
get and were ready to blow the ship
out of the water if she made a hos¬
tile move.”
“First they said it was some kind
of pleasure craft. Then the pilot got
all excited and said he could see Cau¬
casians on deck waving white flags,”
Rodgers said. He soon observed them
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Rodgers reached for a PA system
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swinging the pistol like a club.”
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other BLT 2/9 Marines to the carrier
USS Coral Sea.
In retrospect, one tragic aspect of
the rescue operation was that there
was never any need to attack Koh
Tang. The Mayaguez crew had been
released at sea before the assault
started, yet the lack of direct com¬
munications with Cambodia pre¬
vented American authorities from
knowing this.
Miller visited the Wilson’ s sick
bay to thank the brave young air¬
men and Marines there. “It was the
most moving experience of my life.”
Miller said. “I had to fight to hold
back the tears. The only thing I could
think about were those kids — those
brave young men. They were fight¬
ing and dying for me. At that mo¬
ment I was so damn proud to be an
American.”
Richard Harris is a Texas based
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THROUGH THE WIRE
Confmuec/ from page 35
As Watkins crawled down the hall¬
way, several explosions ripped through
the building. He rubbed his eyes in
disbelief as he saw two officers look¬
ing out a nearby window. “I told the
officers to get down on the floor or
they weren’t long for this world.”
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“Spectre did a hell of a job,”
Watkins said. “They dropped flares
and caught some NVA in the wire,
plus they were able to hit a couple of
pockets of NVA in the camp.”
Good Morning, Vietnam
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Staff Sergeant Robert J. “Spider”
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“There were still some sappers
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NVA fired on the ambulances leaving
camp as well as the one pulling in.
People in the camp got organized and
linked up with the relief force Colo¬
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Parks pulled out his camera and
took pictures of the dead enemy, in¬
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went to Marble Mountain and found
the sand table the NVA had used to
rehearse their attack on FOB 4/CCN.
The Enemy Within
There were several facts about the
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• “It was obvious they had worked
months on the attack ... the NVA had
good intelligence from inside the camp
which helped them pick that night for
the attack,” Watkins said.
• Prior to the attack, warnings about
security problems along the southeast
perimeter, where locals walked
through the barbed wire, were ignored.
Additionally, the local security force
appeared to cooperate with the NVA
instead of defending the camp. NVA
weapons and satchel charges had been
cached inside FOB 4/CCN.
• The attack could have been worse:
Some NVA troops carried maps which
the local Viet Cong had drawn upside
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comer of the compound, instead hit¬
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to put together the reaction force. We
flew down in Kingbees (Vietnamese-
piloted H-34s) before first light... oth¬
erwise the losses could have been
much more crippling.”
• Many SF troops reacted slowly
because there was too much boozing
the previous night.
The total of 17 SF troops killed at
80 SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
MARCH 94
FOB 4/CCN “was the heaviest USASF
loss in a single incident in SF his¬
tory,” according to Green Beret maga¬
zine. Plus, “In the subsequent three
days, eight more USASF were killed,
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killed at FOB 4/CCN were: SSgt.
Talmadge H. Alphin Jr. • Pfc. Will¬
iam H. Brie III • Sgt. 1st Class Tadeusz
M. Kepczyk • Sgt. 1st Class Donald
R. Kerns • Sgt. James T. Kickliter •
Master Sgt. Charles R. Norris • Sgt.
Maj. Richard E. Pegram Jr. • 1st Lt.
Paul D. Potter • Master Sgt. Rolf E.
Rickmers • Spec. 4 Anthony J. Santana
• Master Sgt. Gilbert A. Secor • Sgt.
James W. Smith • Sgt. Robert J.
Uyessaka • SSgt. Howard S. Varni •
Sgt. 1st Class Harold R. Voorheis •
Sgt. 1st Class Albert M. Walter • Sgt.
1st Class Donald W. Welch.
A frequent contributor to SOF with
chronicles of the daring exploits of
special operations troops in the Viet¬
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based journalist. K
TROPHY TREK
Continued from page 37
an impossible shot, but a difficult one
that is also very deadly if it is handled
right.” The bull faced away from them
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Cape buffalo are among Africa’s
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RENT-A-GURKHA
Continued from page 31
R&R, and sent hone to Nepal every
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Dhabi and Dubai; Gurkhas in Yugo¬
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pressure to get accepted is intense.
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Curiously, as a result of international
arrangements, Gurkha soldiers are
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Gurkhas in the British army used
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officers serving even longer. Now,
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retired and, despite having given
years risking their lives for the Crown
(and their pay checks), and paying
British income taxes, they don't leave
with many perks. Returned to their
poor villages in Nepal, they don't get
British citizenship. Nor do they even
get preferential treatment when
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United Kingdom. Also, except under
very special circumstances, they are
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hearty "thanks a lot, chaps."
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As a famous Gurkha officer, Sir
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FOREIGN LEGION
Continued from page 53
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SF Capt. Daniel Egan (center right) describes guerrilla attack on
National Training Center in La Union, El Salvador in October ’85,
as SF troops and Salvadoran medics load the worst wounded
aboard U.S. MilGroup commander’s UH-1H for medevac. When
American SpecOps troops are deployed under fire as “advisers,”
political niceties require they lose combat awards. Could a
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should wear a distinctive uniform.
Heroism awards should not be given
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MERCY KILLINGS?
Conf/nued from page 65
and the Branch Davidians, like ordi¬
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survival was in their self-interest and
surrender. This ill-fated assumption
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“Furthermore, there was direct em¬
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evidence for this was their response
to the ATF’s misguided assault. They
engaged in a desperate shoot-out with
federal law enforcement, which re¬
sulted in deaths and casualties on both
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reports have shied away from directly
confronting and examining the pos¬
sible causal relationship between the
FBI’s pressure tactics and David
Koresh’s [suicide] order to the Branch
Davidians. I believe that this omis¬
sion is critical, because if that tactical
strategy increased the likelihood of the
conflagration in which 25 innocent
children died, then that must be a mat¬
ter of utmost concern for the future
management of such standoffs.”
Destroying The Crime Scene
Jamar’s unilateral decision-making
throughout the operation upset Will¬
iam Johnston, the assistant U.S. attor¬
ney in charge of the Waco office, the
DOJ report notes. Johnston wrote a
23 March 1993 letter to Reno’s of¬
fice, complaining “that the FBI was
destroying important trajectory evi¬
dence” by removing vehicles from
around the Branch Davidian complex
that had been used for cover by ATF
agents during the shoot-out.
“Johnston expressed his concern
that the FBI was ... making no effort
to preserve the crime scene ... It ap¬
peared to Johnston that whatever the
FBI wanted, it got,” according to the
DOJ report. As a result of his com¬
plaints, Johnston was removed as lead
attorney from the case. The DOJ named
Ray Jahn and his wife, both assistant
U.S. attorneys in the San Antonio of¬
fice, to take charge of prosecution.
FBI agents at the scene even an¬
gered each other, according to the DOJ
report. The tactical teams and the ne¬
gotiators “were not always coordinated
and, on occasion, were in conflict with
each other... The negotiators felt that
the negotiating and tactical compo¬
nents of the FBI’s strategy were more
often contradictory than complemen¬
tary.” For instance, each time in early
negotiations that Koresh made some
concession, it was followed by pun¬
ishing tactics — the cutoff of electric¬
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from the tactical teams. This eventually
prompted Koresh to renege on prom¬
ises for other concessions, citing the
negative results of earlier agreements.
“For their part, the tactical person¬
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of the status of the negotiations,” notes
the DOJ report, which goes on to de¬
tail the anger of tactical-team mem¬
bers at the negotiating team’s telling
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caliber sniper rifle from a window.
The tactical team also knew about the
sniper rifle — and could tailor their
movements accordingly. But now they
had no idea of where the Davidians
had repositioned this weapon. As for
Jamar, the site commander “believes
all supervisors were given the neces¬
sary information, and is unaware of
any failure in communication.”
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psychologists and psychiatrists, nego¬
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tinued participation of ATF agent
James Cavanaugh in the negotiations.
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by Tucker Carlson
Although President Clinton eventually told
Washington's mayor that he would not mobilize the
National Guard to patrol the city's streets, he claimed
to be "very sympathetic" to the idea. Who wouldn't
be? Like many other American cities, Washington is a
violent place. Mayor Sharon Pratt Kelly's request, al¬
though criticized by many, was not illogical. It came
around the time Washington had recorded its 376th
homicide this year.
The problem with the request is that Washington
already has enough police. In fact, it has more of them
per capita than any city in America. So far, however,
they haven't done much to control crime. Indeed,
Washington residents are saddled with a police de¬
partment that is inept and unresponsive at best, crimi¬
nal at worst. How did this happen?
For years, Washington's police force enjoyed a repu¬
tation as one of the best in the
country. In the 1950s, it was not
uncommon for detectives to
solve all the district's murder
cases in a given year. Then, in
the mid-1970s, the city adopted
a residency requirement for new
police officers. The rule limited
the pool of applicants dramati¬
cally by preventing experienced
cops from joining Washington's force without moving
their families to the city. Although the regulation was
later repealed, it caused the department to adopt
slack hiring policies that remain in place.
Even with an affirmative action policy that adds
points to the scores of candidates simply for attending
Washington's public schools (and not necessarily gradu¬
ating), many potential officers couldn't pass the police
academy's tests. So the department changed require¬
ments. In May 1985, a recruit at the police academy
could be expelled for failing two exams. Seven months
later, the same recruit would have to fail six exams to
be sent packing.
But dropping the benchmark wasn't enough. Then-
Mayor Marion Barry came to the rescue. His solution:
appoint officers by lottery — the ultimate in equal
opportunity. Even by Mr. Barry's standards, this was
pretty wacky. Congress thought so, too, and ultimately
squelched the idea in its budget appropriation for the
city. But the spirit of nonjudgment lived on. In 1988,
after 40% of graduating recruits failed the final com¬
prehensive exam, the police academy abolished
the test.
All this had a predictable effect on the caliber of
Washington cops. "I saw people who were practically
illiterate," says Mike Hubbard, a detective who spent
five years training recruits. "I've seen people diag¬
nosed as borderline-retarded graduate from the po¬
lice academy."
Things had gotten worse by 1989, when, in an
attempt to fight rising crime, the city hired nearly
2,000 new officers. "In our zeal to get as many offic¬
ers on the street as are being demanded," said Deputy
Washington's Rule Of Law
Chief Melvin Clark, "we kind of rushed the training
process." That is a diplomatic assessment. Mr. Hubbard
puts it simply: "We swore in entire classes — hundreds
of people — without background checks."
Often it seemed that police officials weren't inter¬
ested in what an applicant had done before signing up
for a gun and badge. Like other cities, Washington
seals the criminal records of juvenile offenders once
they become adults. Apparently the policy is not to
eliminate people with criminal juvenile pasts.
To find out more, I called the recruiting office and
spoke with Investigator Debbie Reid. I explained that I
wanted to join the force, but was worried that my
"extensive juvenile criminal record" would make that
impossible. "No," she assured me, "that alone will
not keep you from coming aboard." I then told her
that, truth be told, my juvenile record was pretty bad.
In fact, I said, I had spent con¬
siderable time in jail for an
armed-robbery conviction. Surely
that would disqualify me. Not
necessarily, she said. "It depends
on what your disposition was at
the time."
As word of the department's
new and inclusive hiring proce¬
dures leaked out, thousands took
advantage. "A lot of people who were in the drug
rackets joined the police department," says former
Washington cop Montague Holmes. "Some of them
went straight when they joined the department, and
some of them didn't."
Last year, 36 officers were indicted on charges such
as dope dealing, sexual assault, murder, sodomy and
kidnapping. In one instance, scores, perhaps thou¬
sands, of confiscated weapons (sloppy police record¬
keeping makes it impossible to know the exact num¬
ber) were stolen from a police warehouse by employ¬
ees. At least one was later used in a murder.
Even honest officers often are ill-suited for police
work. Aside from a basic agility test, the department
applies almost no physical standards to recruits. For
instance, it does not require strength or endurance
tests, either of which might bring the city into conflict
with the Americans With Disabilities Act. Candidates
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least five feet tall and "carry proportionate weight."
According to one officer, officials are lenient in deter¬
mining how much weight is proportionate. As a result, he
says, the force has a nationwide reputation for fat cops.
In addition to its personnel problems, the police
department often operates with inferior and outdated
equipment. Many station houses make do with rotary-
dial phones. Mr. Hubbard says the clerical equipment
in his office consists of two manual typewriters. A
report by The Washington Times found that in one
police district 12 out of 19 patrol cars were out of
service. In another district, a lack of cars sometimes
Continued on page 87
" I’ve seen people
diagnosed as
borderline-retarded
graduate from the
police academy.”
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